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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-30
CANINE COURAGE.

The house of medical gentleman in Lon
don was lately entered by burglars. A little
black dog was the only obstacle to their ne
farious attempts, and it was not until fear
full fight between the dog and the thieves
occurred, resulting in the poor animals re-
ceiving more than twenty wounds, that they
were able to proceed with their work of
plumber, which they effected by breaking
open all the locks and taking away every
article of value upon which they could lay
their hands. The fight between dog and
men must have been very severe, the pools
of blood and the cuts upon the sofa on which
the poor creature slept, indicating the cour-
age, determined resistance and sagacity we
so often read of in anecdotes of that faithful
animal. One of the most astonishing facts
connected with the affair is, although one
stab penetrated the lungs, one almost divid-
ing the throat, and an immense amount of
hemorrhage ensued, the dog is yet alive and
the doctor has every hope of saving it.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-30
Taken In.

Yesterday evening, a colored swain entered
the Office Of Justice Mccormick, with a
blushing colored belle on his arm, and with
out the slightest embarrassment and appar-
emily unconscious of the solemnity of the
occasion, he earnestly remarked, owe wants
to marry" Brushing the dust from his
coat-sleeve, and smiling like a basket of
chips, the Justice simply observed, Cali
right" The groom removed his beaver, and
the bride gracefully swung her trail, as they
approached the stand wheron the Court sat,
thinking of the gopher market and probable
range of prices therein. Bringing that ease
and grace into requisition which experience,
and experience only, can acquire, the Court
soon rendered the happy pair two souls but
with a single thought, two hearts that beat
as one. elbow much is it?" asked the
groom, as he put his hand into his pocket.
"Well, about two dollars, reckon re-
piled the Court. He seized the alabasteI
arm of his bride, laughed loudly, and said.
Il ain SoG nickel, rs ne walked out Oh
the Office of the swindled Justice. The Court
saws that while it is the first time he was
ser done so badly, he don't care anything
about it, but admires the impudence of the
groom, and thinks him foolish to start of
the hill of life in double harness without q
cent. He doesn't need any money, if his
wife is good cook, and has a good situa.
finn
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-30
INTERESTING FACTS.

Professor Playfair says: eff only bend
my arm, or move my finger, there is GER
tain portion of the tissue destroyed, which
must be supplied by my food; the more
work man performs, the more of these nj
trogenous substances he requires. The other
class of food serves very important, but
quite different purpose-supplying animal
heat. The temperature of our bodies is, in
temperate climates, at least, higher than the
surrounding air, and in order to keep up
this temperature, a combustion goes on SIM
liar to that of an ordinary fire. The same
products carbonic acid, water and ammonia
are evolved from the mouth of the fur
mace of the body, and the mouth of COM
mon chimney. In cold weather certain
portion of heat is gradually extracted from
our body, which must be supplied by the
combustion of our food or of the matter of
our bodies 1.-THE colder the climate, therefore,
the more heat-giving must be the food"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-30
CHANGE OF COLOR IN ANIMALS.

Certain animals possess the power of
changing their color at viii, or according
to the circumstances in which they are
placed. This is convincingly shown in
some recent experiments made by Mr..
Pouchet, French investigator. He chose
as his subject the Palemon serratus, a
species of prawn or crab. These prawns,
when brought ashore by the fishermen,
have rose or dark Lilly color; but if they
are put into porcelain vessels with black or
white bottoms, they will assume colors
wholly unlike. Those in the white dish
become yellowish, almost colorless, as if
they had just shed their skin; those in the
dark-colored dish assume brownish red
hue. If they are changed, the pale into
the black vessel. and vice versa, they again
change their color, in correspondence with
their surroundings. The change of pale
one to dark tint was more rapid than the
reverse. Thus, under favorable circum-
stances, q yellow, red, or blue Philemon can
be created.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-30
A RiOtus Peanut Eater.

Last week a woman was placed on trial In
the Chester County, Pa, Court, charged
with disturbing religious meeting. The
offence was riotously eating peanuts. She
was requested to desist, but she munched
and munched Notwithstanding. And after
ward she crushed the shells in her hands and
threw them on the floor, and declared she
would eat peanuts whenever she feltinclined.
This was the evidence on the part of the
prosecution. 1t was said in defense, that the
meeting was over and the defendant was
only lettering there and enjoying her pea
nuts, a fine old constitutional privilege
which ought not to be abridged. Verdict
not guilty. Prosecutor for costs.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-30
THE OLD, OLD HOMESTEAD.

Outlines in memory see the dear old
homestead Oh! how plainly in magma
ton the old farmhouse comes up before
my mind and those uncultivated and
rock-crowned hills, the rude plain, that old
maple and apple orchard, in fancy again I
see. The violet and the forget-me-not,
the messy rocks, and laughing rills, the
crystal spring, all these again II see. and
the happy days Of childhood come floating
back to me again. 1t seemed but yester-
day, that father smiled, and mother kissed
her boy, in the old homestead Oh, those
sunny days of childhood, they were all too
bright to last, and as sadly think of the
dear ones passed away, mother, father,
sister, brother, all sleeping in those orchard
graves on the old homestead, and of the
thousand happy hours spent by us together,
it seems that death has taken all my earth
ly treasures and / am left alone at last
But voice softly floating on the evening
breeze, tells me am not alone, and IN i'm
agination I ramble over the old homestead.
with the cherished lone Of long ago at
my side. And thus it is, the buds of spring,
the summer flowers come and go, with
their beauty teening, but in memory new
er dying. So with fondly cherished ones,
though in the grave we have their forms so
fair, they ever in memory dwell with us.
The days Of childhood, the old homestead,
will never be forgotten, the past to us, by
mind and memory, will be renewed, the
tuneful birds, with varied songs, the little
brooks that wind along the stream reflect
ing spotless sky, and "crystal streams
more fair" and the wildwoods around the
old homestead where nature first her charms
to me displayed, ecGpsing works Of human
art, these to me are more precious in men,
DRY than all the gems of earth and art,
rude though they be.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-30
A RECORD OF BIRTHS.
ton.

An honest farmer of Caithness, recording
the births Of his children in the family
Bible, wrote: Betty was born on the day
that John Cathel lost his gray mare in the
moss. Jenny was born the day they be-
gan mending the roof O. the kirk. Sandy
was born the night my mother broke her
leg, and the day after Kitty gaed away with
the sodgers. The twins, Willie and Marget,
was born the day Sandy Bremen bigget
his new barn, and the very day after the
battle O. Waterloo Kirsty was born the
night O. the great fecht on the Reedsmas,
atween Peter Donaldson and a south country
droyer. Forbye, the factor, raised the rent
the same year. Amy was born the night
the kiln gaed onfre, six years syne. David
was born the night O. the great speat, and
three days afore Jamie Miller had lift frae
the fairies y CHam6ers's Journal.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-30
FULL AND EMPTY sTOMACHs.

A business man who has been at work all
day will enter his house for dinner as crab
bed as hungry bear-crabbed because he
is as hungry as hungry bear. The wife
understands the mood, and while she says
little to him, is careful not to have the din
ner delayed. In the meantime the children
watch him cautiously, and do not tease him
with questions. When the soup is gulped,
and he leans back and wipes bis mouth
there is an evident relaxation, and his wife
ventures to ask for the news. When the
roast beef is disposed of, she presumes upon
gossip, and possibly upon a jest; and when,
at last, the dessert is spread upon the table,
all hands are merry, and the face of the hus-
band and father, which entered the house so
pinched and savage, and sharp, becomes
soft, and full and beaming as the face of the
round Summer moon
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-30
A LAWYERS Note.

A wag of a lawyer was sitting in his
Office the other day deeply engaged in
unraveling some knotty question, when
agentleman entered and inquired, ais
this Mr.. Z.?" The student of Blackstone
raising his eyes from the legal book be-
fore him replied: "If you owe me any
thing, or have any business in my lire,
then z. is my name; if you have claim
to present, am not the man. If you
simply called for social chat, you can
call me by any name" I propose to
present you with some business in your
line. have note of twenty-fv dol
lars I want you to collect and handing
the lawyer note, departed to call the
next day. AS soon as he was gone, the
lawyer ascertalned that it was one of his
own promises to pay. The next day his
client appeared, and inquired, swell,
what success?" Gall right; / have col
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-30
CHINESE DELICACIES.

In street in Canton rats are hung up'for
sale with poultry. They are dried and salt
ed, and are very much liked by ladies whose
hair is falling off, as the flesh of rats is
known to be an excellent preventative of
badness Pork is one of the staples of
Chinese cookery, the best bacon and hams
coming from the provinces of Fokien and
Quang Tang, the flavor of the hams being
much improved by keeping them for year
or two in sawdust after they have been
cured. AS in Europe and here, certain
places in China are renowned for their pro-
ducts, such as Pekin for its sweet ducks !;
Ton-lion, small village near that city, for
its vinegar (tsou); Tchin-Kiang, in the
Klangsu, for sauce made with fermented
beans and salt, which the Chinese use as we
use Worcestershire sauce
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-30
Gems of Thought.

Faint not; the miles to Heaven are but
few and short.
Clothe and wrap yourself in humility,
SO that it shall be impossible to tear from
you this covering.
There is blessing attending the min
istration of mercy. The luxury of doing
good surpasses every other personal en-
joyment.
The humble man, though surrounded
with the scoru and reproach of the world,
is still in peace, for the stability of his
peace resteth not upon the world, but
upon God.
While we wrangle here in the dark,
we are dying and passing to the world
that will decide all our controversies; and
the safest passage thither is by peaceable
holiness.
A young man cannot recover the loss he
suffers here in practice of bad habits,
though by patience and godly sorrow he
may regain the celestial companionship
of his mother in heaven.
Every man ought tdendeavor at emf
hence, not by pulling others down; but
by raising himself, and enjoy the pleasure
OF his own superiority, whether imaginary
or real, without interrupting others in the
same felicity.
The shortest and surest way to live
with honor in the world, is to be in re-
atty what we would appear to be; and,
FIVE observe we shall find that all human
virtues increase and strengthen them
selves by the experience of them.
We look back to former times and the
struggles that then were, and wish we had
been helpers in the fight; but there is hon
orable warfare now, or have not the cour-
age to do it if we can see, neither should
We have had vision OF courage then.
Infinite toll would not enable you to
sweep away mist; but by ascending a
little you may often look over it all to-
gether. So it Is with our mortal improve
ment, we wrestle ierceIy with vicious
habit which could have no hold upon us
if we ascend into higher moral atmos
phere.
Mr.. Horatio Seymour compares the In
dians to Marquis de Talleyrand. OF the
redmen he is reported as saying: "They
are natural orators and diplomatists.
The finest speeches that were made to me
when / was Governor were made by the
Iroquois Indians. Yet they would not
speak except in their own language and
through an interpreter, though they spoke
English perfectly well. They reminded
me OF Tallcyrand, who would not allow
himself to speak English or be addressed
in that tongue while he was in Great
Britain, though he was fluent English
scholar.
Do you ask what will educate your SOM
Your example will educate him; your con-
versation with your friends; the business
he sees you transact; the likings and dis
likings he sees you express; these will
educate him, the society you live in will
educate him; above all, your rank, your
situation in.life, your home, your table,
will educate him. It is not in your pow
er to withdraw from him the continual
influence of these things except you were
to withdraw yourself from them also.
Education goes on at every instant of
time; you can neither stop it nor turn its
course. What these have tendency to
make your child. that he will be.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-30
WHO FIRST DREW DOWN THE LIGHT

tf
The history Of lightning conductors ex-
tends over but brief period of time. 1t is
ordinarily dated from the memorable even
ing when Benjamin Franklin, accompanied
by his eldest son, succeeded lin the bold
experiment of drawing lightning from the
clouds down the conductor afforded by the
wet string of silken kite. Tits remarkable
that Mr.. Anderson does not refer to that
which converted the first failure into the
subsequent success, namely, the wetting of
the kite-string by the thunder-shower. But
we cannot help confessing sort of satisfac-
ton, on behalf of the Old World, in being
taught to antedate this triumph of expert
mental sagacity, though only by a few days,
in favor of an experiment made at the sug-
gestion of Button by M. Dalibard. At
Marty La Vile, about eighteen miles from
Paris, on the road to Pontoise, NJ Dalibard
possessed country-house standing on a
high plain, some four hundred feet above
the sea-leyel Here a wooden scafolding
was erected, supporting an iron rod eighty
feet long and little more than an inch
thick. At about five feet from the ground
this rod was connected with an electrical ap-
paratus. Shortly after the whole was fixed,
on May 10, 1852, (ffty-five days before the
observation at Philadelphia g thunderstorm
came on. M. Dalbard was absent in Paris,
but he had left the apparatus in charge of a
faithful sentinel, one of his servants, an old
soldier, Golfer by name, with full instruc-
tons. Golfer presented to the conductor
an iron key with the handle bound in silk,
and was thus the first human observer who
drew down, by tentative means, the electric
spark from the clouds. On May 10, 1852,
NJ. Dalibard startled the Academic DIES
Sciences by reading report of this first
great experiment made as to aerial cleo
tricity Exchange.
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My WoOing.

Down through the sloplng meadows
Winds the rivulet fair,
With tangles Of long grass waving
Above, like beautiful hair.
Lilies along its margin
Wave in the morning breeze,
And swing their golden censors
Beneath the poisoning trees.
Once, when the summer was dawning,
Down through the slope of green,
With roses among her tresses,
Wandered my beautiful queen.
Her footstep was slow and stately,
And down at her glancing feet
The fair flowers swayed and Quivered
AT touches so soft and sweet.
Scarcely dared to whisper
The love fast filing my heart;
For feared her scornful glances
3, Would bid every hope depart.
But her lids dropped softly downward,
And a roSe-fluSh stained her cheek;
And read, in her sweet confusion,
What her dear lips dared not speak.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-30
The Latest Shrewd Swindle.

A druggist in Des Moines, Iowa, was re-
Gently made the victim of rather expensive
practical joke. A man apparently under
the influence Of liquor, entered the shop one
morning and called for glass of soda water.
After drinking it he staggered against a
pane of French plate glass in the show win
dow, shiVering it to atoms. Seeing the mis-
chief he had done he hurried away, but the
druggist pursued and overlook him, de-
handing payment for the damage. The
inebriate protested that he was impecunious,
but the plea did not avail two clerks seized
and searched him, and extracted somewhere
about his person a 500 bill. This they
deposited in their money till, deducting the
price of the glass, and, stufing the change
into one Of his pockets, sent him adrift upon
the street.
During the day the druggist discovered to
his horror that the bill was a counterfeit.
Of course, no time was lost; officers were
sent in every direction, and the offender was
at length captured and brought before the
bar Of justice Here, however a legal tech.
nicality disturbed the even flow Of the equi-
ty. The drunkard urged that he was guilt
less of any crime; that the counterfeit money
happened to be in his pocket at the time of
the accident, and that it was taken from him
by force. Under the circumstances the hon
orable gentleman who presided over the
court felt constrained to dismiss the case
and the druggist, with the fear Of a suit fol
assault and battery before his eyes, declined
to move further in the matter.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-30
TEXAN SPORTS.

Sportsmen find an agreeable abiding
place in Texas. On the prairies almost
every kind of wild animals abound. In the
north west are the wild horse, or mustang
and the fierce buffalo. The deer and the
antelope, the moose and the mountain
goat, are plentiful, not to mention the ja-
guars, the wild cats, black bears, ocelots.
wolves and foxes, and such smaller game as
peccaries, opossums, hares, rabbits and
squirrels. A special feature of wild Life is
the prairie dog ormarmot. dwelling in holes
burrowed in the ground. Their numbers
are so great that the traveller may jour
ney for days together without losing sight
of them. The feathered tribe are also
abundant, including birds Of prey and birds
Of sport. There is the bald-headed eagle
and the Mexican eagle, vultures, owls,
hawks, wild turkeys, wild geese, prairie
hens, canvas back and other ducks, teal,
brant, pheasants, quails, grouse, woodcock,
pigeon, cartridges, snipe, plover, red birds
and turtle doves. By the waters are also
found the crane, the swan, the pelican, the
water turkey, and the king-fsher. The
smaller birds are numerous, and among
them many of the most brilliant plumage,
as the oriole, the paroquet, the cardinal,
the whippoorwill, and the sweet-toned
hooking bird. Black birds abound, and
wood-peckers, blue-jays, starlings, swal-
lows, martens, and wrens. In the rivers
and bays there are all the varieties of water
life, from alligators to perch, pike, trout,
green turtle and oysters.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-30

= She spoke no word, but looking a moment
in his eyes, stopped and raised first one then
the other to her lips
''There is but one man." then she said,
'to whom win belong, and he it is who
for my sake washed his hands in blood.
Alex, it needed this to lay bare our souls one
to the other.
Then she burst into bitter weeping, but
her tears fell on his breast.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-30

lected the money. Here it is, Less my
fees, . handing him fifteen dollars.
".Good!" said the client. 81 have made
two dollars and half by this operation
"How so2'' said the lawyer. "Well." re-
piled the client, II tried all over the city
to sell your note for twelve dollars and a
half, but couldn't do it."
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-30

Trials are moral ballast that often pFe4
vents our capsizing. When we have muck
to carry, heaven rarely fails to fit the back
to the burden where we have nothing toI
bear we can seldom bear ourselves. Tha
burdened vessel may be slow in reachin@
the destined port, but the vessel withous
ballast is in imminent danger of not reach.
ing it at all.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-30

WoxHN resemble flowers. They shut
up when they sleep.
The daily gazette., 1880-08-18
DELIGHTS OF BRITISH RAIL
WAY TRAVEL.

Two gentlemen, belonging to dlas-
gov, who had been to Belfast, were re-
turning home by way of Stranraer, and
entered the train leaving there shortly
before eight o'clock. They travelled by
themselves till they reached Byr, when
they were joined by a stalwart, gentle
manly-looking man, who proved to be
dangerous companion. Directly the
train moved out of the station the new
conner picked up pipe belonging to one
OF the gentlemen and threw it out of the
window. Although rather chagrined
neither OF the gentlemen said anything,
wishing to avoid disturbance and believ-
ing that their CONF anion was intoxica-
ted. Soon the stanger began to punch
them in the ribs with stick, put HIM
self in a meDacing attitude, talked very
incoherently, and amused himself by
knocking off their hats. The two gen
tlemen began to think that matters had
proceeded just far enough, and one OF
them quietly informed the stranger that
he had better desist, and that he nigh
find, if he persisted in his "little game"
he had met his match. The tram had
passed Irvine and was flying onwa d,
when suddenly the stranger produced
from stylish game-bag six-chambered
revolver OF large size. He examined 1t
for minute or two and then drew the
trigger once or twice, evidently just to
satisfy himself that it was not loaded
The examination OF the revolver con-
cluded, the stranger laid it down beside
him on the seat while he took from a
case filled with ball-cartridges halt 4
dozen to load the revolver. The strong
er of the two gentlemen thought that
his time for action had arrived and quiet
ly picked up the revolver, ostensibly
with the object of looking at 1t; but
when his excited fellUw-traveller re-
quested it to be returned the request
was refused. Then a scene occurred in
the compartment. The stranger rushed
at the gentleman having possession Of
the revolver, knocked off his hat and en-
deavored forcibly to possess himself of
the weapon. He failed, and was then
observed looking for knife. He was
then told that if he did not sit down and
remain quiet he would be severely dealt
with, and he contented himself with
threatening what he would do till the
train reached Johnstone. Here the gei-
tleman handed the revolver to the guard
OF the tain and informed an official of
what had occurred, and stated the man
had as much powder in his possession as
would wreck a train. The reply receiv-
cd was to the effect, "You are all alike
to us, and ii it don't suit you you Gail
change your carriage" This the two
gentlemen did, and went to Glasgow in
another compartment, thinking them
selves exceedingly fortunate in having
escaped serious injury from one who
had all the appearance of being luna
.ic.-Edinburgh Ceurant, August 2.