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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02
Ringing Rocks.

Ringing hill Is an eminence in Potts
town, Montgomery county, Pa, and is
so named because of the ringing rocks"
found thereon. An account of these
is given il the Reading Dispatch, as
follows: g The ringing rocks cover
space of about three-quarters of an acre.
In this tract powders are piled upon
powders of all shapes and forms, and
SO promiscuously arranged that consid-
cradle agility is required to walk over
them without falling. AS one steps
from rock to rock, bringing sound, pro-
duced by the nails in the boot heels, is
plainly heard. On tapping the stones
with hammer quite remarkable accous-
tic properties are revealed. Some of
them give forth a rich, full tone which
would probably vie with the best bell
metal if the stones were fashioned into
bells. One of them in particular, from
the depth of tone, is known as the
State House bell. This was at. one
time among the largest of the rocks. It
has been broken off, however, but still
has preserved its strong, full tone. The
general sound produced by striking the
smaller stones resembles that of
blacksmith's anvil, some having
little clearer ring than others, and
no two sounding just alike. In
passing from one to another of the
larger rocks one is reminded of the tap
ping of car-wheels by the train inspect
ors. Thousands of people visit this
natural phenomenon every summer.
The rocks themselves bear evidence of
this, the edges being battered off by
hammer strokes, and the sides of many
having names carved upon them. Some
parties, who were unwilling to take the
time or trouble to schisel their names
upon the rocks, have resorted to paint,
and considerable daubing has been done
in various colors. The advertising fend
has not failed to put in his appearance;
and we are made aware of the merits of
patent medicines, of the place to buy
carpets and the like upon every hand.
We have not heard any satisfactory ex-
PLANTATION of the cause of the ringing or
bell-like sound of these rocks. Some
say it is owing to there being a cavern
under them. This, however, can have
nothing to do with it, as when the rocks
are removed they still have the same
sound. One large and sonorous bowlder
was taken to the Centennial and attract
ed great deal of attention there. An
other was sent to England a year or two
ago. There is probably metallic sub
stance in this group of powders to
which the ringing sound may be at
tributed. We have not heard, however,
of any geological analysis.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02
The Weather Affecting the Mind.

Dull, depressing, dingy days produce
dispiriting reflections and gloomy
thoughts, and small wonder when we re-
member that the mind is not only a
motive, but receptive organ, and that
all the impressions it receives from
without reach it through the medium of
senses which are directly dependent on
the condition of light and atmosphere
for their action, and therefore imme-
diately influenced by the surrounding
conditions. It is a common-sense in
ference that if the impressions from
without reach the mind through imper-
fectly-acting organs of sense, and those
impressions are themselves set in a
minor aesthetic key of color, sound, and
general qualities, the mind must be
what is called moody" It is not the
habit of sensible people to make sufi-
cient allowance for this rationale of
dullness and subjective weakness. Some
persons are more dependent on external
circumstances and conditions for their
energies-or the stimulus that converts
potential kinetic forces than others;
but all feel the influence of the world
without, and to this influence the sick
and the weak are especially responsive.
Hence the varying temperaments of
mind changing with the weather, the
outlook, and the wind.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02
Severe Rebuke.

John Locke, the English philosopher,
was a favorite with many of the great
noblemen of his age. They liked his
robust sense and ready wit, and enjoyed
even the sharp reproofs in which he oc-
casionally INDUCED. On one occasion
he had been invited to meet select
party at Lord Ashley's. When ne came
they were playing at cards, and contin-
ued absorbed in the game for two or
three hours.
For some time Locke looked on, and
then began to write diligently in a
blank book taken from his pocket. At
length they asked him what he was
writing. He answered:
my Lords, am improving myself
the best I can in your company; for,
having impatiently waited this honor
of being present at such meeting of
the wise men and great wits of the age,
I thought could not do better than
write down your conversation, and here
I have in substance all that has passed
for this hour or two"
The noble Lords were so ashamed at
the written record of their frivolous
talk that they at once stopped card
playing and began the discussion Of
an important subject.
Thomas Carlyle has uttered even a
more pungent reproof of idle talk: @1f
we can permit God Almighty" he says,
to write down our conversation, think
ing it good enough for him, any poor
Boswell need not scruple to work his
will of Youths Companion.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02
A Bumble-Bee Story.

I am the son of q sack of all trades"
and I live in the Old Dominion. My
father is Woodworking man, buta very
great grumbler; and, as general thing,
that kind of men are very passionate.
One day, not many years ago, we as
cended loft (the kind of old structures
that were to be seen in days gone by,
with the staircase running up the out
side, leading to small platform where
everything was hoisted up). We en-
tered this loft for the purpose of stow
ing lot of blade fodder.
We had been at work some time, when
father told me to work little faster. I
said was working as fast as I could.
He said it wasn't SO, to have the last
word. I said he was mistaken. With
that he picked up bunch of fodderand
struck at me. It would seem it was not
a very formidable weapon; but it
proved so to him. It contained those
terrible little insects, bumble-bees.
When he delivered the blow, it stirred
them up, causing them to fly out very
much enraged. They did not stop to
consider who was the di5turber of their
peace, but took it for granted that it
was the old gentleman. Having made
up their minds to that effect, they set
to work to devour him. He twisted,
turned, and, without taking time to run
down the steps, made flying leap for
terra frma, reaching it with hop, skip
and jump. He then started for the
house at 2 40 gait on plank road.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02
A High.Toned Merchant.

The Chinese are remarkable for their
business talent. So sharp and clever
are they, that some one has named them
"the Yankees of the East" In one re-
spect, they excel not only the Yankees.
but all the people of the United States.
They carry on their Government on
business principles, just as we manage a
cotton factory or railroad.
Another custom of this peculiar
people is worthy of the imitation of
the outside barbarians." It is said
that before New Years day-which oc-
ours ON the Goth of January-every
Chinaman who values his reputation
pays all his debts. What value Chi
nese merchant puts on his reputation
may be learned from suggestive story.
During the troubles which preceded
the war with England, the Chinese
Viceroy, Ye, issued an edict condemn
ing to death every native convicted of
holding the slightest intercourse with
the barbarians."
The English, French, and other Eu-
ropean merchants we're thus forced to
close their counting houses in Canton !;
for the native clerks and porters LETT
their employ, and no Chinese merchant
dared openly to transact business with
them. Besides, they feared for their
lives. and many of them made prepar-
atoms to leave the city.
Among these was Swiss merchant.
While he was packing up his goods one
night, he was surprised to see a Chinese
merchant, who owed him a large sum,
enter his store. With him were two
coolies, carrying ingots of silver with
which to pay the debt.
The Swiss merchant expressed his
establishment at the temerity of his
Chinese debtor
st did not wish," replied the China
man, that any one should think I
would take advantage of these unfortu-
nate circumstances and not pay my
debts"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02
Newly.Marrfed Couples.

It is the happiest and most virtnous
state of society in which the husband
and wife set out together, and with per-
feet sympathy of soul, graduate all their
expenses, plans, calculations, and de-
sires with reference to their present
means and to their future and common
interest.
Nothing delights man more than to
enter the neat little tenement of the
young people who within perhaps two
or three years, without any resources
but their own knowledge of industry,
have joined heart and hand, and engage
to share together the responsibilities,
duties, interests, trials and pleasures of
life. The industrious wife is cheerfully
employing her hands in domestic du-
ties, putting her house in order or
mending her husbands clothes, or pre-
pairing the dinner, while perhaps the
little darling sits prattling on the floor
or lies sleeping in the cradle, and ev-
erything seems preparing to welcome
the happiest of husbands and the best
of fathers when he shall come home
from his toll to enjoy the sweets Of his
little paradise.
This is the true domestic pleasure.
Health, contentment, love, abundance
and bright prospects are all here. But
it has become prevalent sentiment
that man must acquire his fortune
before he marries; that the wife must
have no sympathy nor share with him
in the pursuit of tin which most of
the pleasure truly consists and the
young married people must set out with
as large and expensive an establishment
as is becoming those who have been
welded for twenty years. This is very
unhappy; it fills the community with
bachelors, who are waiting to make their
fortunes, endangering virtue, promot-
ing vice; destroys the true economy
and design of the domestic institution,
and it promotes inefficiency among fe-
males, who are expecting to be taken
up by fortunes and passively sustained
without any care or concern On their
part, and thus many wife becomes,
as gentleman once remarked, not a
helpmeet," but "helpeat. Golden
AQe.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02
Forests ami Hygiene.

Forests contribute to the general
health by breaking the force of steadily
blowing winds. They mitigate the heat
of summer by the vast amount of evap-
Grafton that takes place through their
leaves by day. By night the CORE
spending condensation of moisture
upon the leaves still further absorbs the
heat, on the evaporation of the moist
ure the next morning.
They also, as is now well known, pro-
mote rainfalls. Thus they check the
tendency of the earth to too great dry
ness, which is almost as injurious to
health as it is to vegetation; for cpl
demic diseases are sure to do their fatal
work where the saltwater is below the
ordinary standard.
Hence, cholera often passes wooded
district, and revels, in fatal power, in a
treeless one. There are numerous facts
like the following.
A certain road in India leads for
sixty miles through a dense forest.
Further on, it runs for ninety miles
through a barren plain. Hundreds of
persons travel the entire road daily.
Now, in the first or wooded portion,
cases of cholera seldom occur; while in
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02
How a Good Man Died.

To many a good man the bed of death
has been the couch of life. The spirit
contrasted itself with the dying body,
that it might more emphatically assert
the power of tho endless life.
On such couch rested Bishop Haven.
Groups gathered round it, to muse over
the transition from death unto life.
"It is so pleasant, SO beautiful, so
delightful dying" said the living Bish-
OPP. "The angels are here. God lifts
me up SO in His arms, cannot see the
River of Death. There is no river. 1t
is all light. | am floating away from
earth up into heaven. I am gliding
away into God"
Goodnight" said an old friend, as
he turned away. Goodnight" was
the reply, "but when we meet again it
will be good-morning."
And so was fulfilled the word OF the
prophet cat evening time shall be light"
There was no night about that couch,
for the light of Immortality had touched
it.
That resurrection to the blessed life
recalls another bed of death, which also
was couch of life. It was laid in India,
and he who rested on it was Schwarz,
the venerable apostle of three score and
twelve years.
His life was gliding away so gently
that the chest seemed not to rise and
fall. Even the delicate touch of love
could discern no pulse. Thinking him
dead, the Taniel pupils began chanting
their version of the teachers favorite
hymn:
o sacred head, now wounded.
With grief and shame weighed down;
sacred brow, surrounded
With thorns, thine only crown!
Singing through the eight lines of the
first stanza, they paused, as if in doubt
whether the second might not be a
prayer for the dead instead of an in
vocation for the living.
Suddenly from the dying man came
the words at which they had paused, in
a low but clear chant:
On me, as Thou art dying,
Oh, turn Thy plying eyet
To Thee, for mercy crying,
Before Thy cross ie
Thine, Thine the bitter passion,
Thy pain is all for me;
Mine. mine the deep transgression,
My sins all on Thee?
The stanza ended, the voice ceased to
be heard by the Taniel pupils. But
angels heard it change from the cry of
supplication to the shout of praise to
Him whom he had served for eight-and-
forty years.
Heaven lies about us in our infancy"
may be POLITICALLY affirmed of the be-
ginning of human life; how truly it may
be said of the closing of a Christians
lifel The King in his beauty is seen by
the dying Christian, for the land is not,
then, very far off.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02
Advice to q Young Man.

No, my son, the world does not owe
you living. The world does not need
you, just yet; you need the world. If
you can convince the world that you
are necessary to its well-being, its hap
piness, it's pleasure, its moral existence,
then the world will begin to claim you
and make room for you in the body
pews, with the softest cushions and the
easiest foot-stools. But don't fall into
the common error of supposing that
the world owes you living. Itdoesn't
owe you anything of the kind. The
world isn't responsible for your being.
It didn't send for you; it never asked
you to come here, and in no sense is it
obliged to support you now that you
are here. Your living is here-a good,
comfortable living. Plenty to eat,
plenty to wear; an abundance of good,
healthful, hard work; ripples of laugh
ter and sprinkles of tears; hours of
happiness and moments of heartache;
days of labor and nights of rest; duties
to be performed and rewards to be won;
it is ali here, SON disappointment,
struggles, success and honors- the
world doesn't owe you one of them;
not one. You can't collect your living
as you would debt, by simply present
ing your bill, or giving your lawyer the
account to sue. You have to work for
it, son, and work Like a Trojan, too.
When you hear man say that the
world owes him living, and he is 60
ing to have it, make up your mind that
he is just making himself a good ex-
cuse for stealing a living. The world
doesn't owe any man anything, son. It
will give you anything you earn, and
you Just look out over the world and
know that all the plumber you can gath
er in by honest work is yours, and no
more. If you can't get any, why none
of it is yours, and if you can reach out
and carry away ten times as much as
your neighbor, why that is all yours,
and he has no right to wait and whine
over his bad luck and want you to di-
vide. And, my son, in all human prob
ability you will not want to divide. l
hope you may, but it is very likely that
you won't.-Bo6 Batrdette.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02

cry she had seen. aLet the city author
tiles see to them. We are all of us poor
enough, without giving money away,
though 1 must say I pity them dread
fully and would help them if I could"
Hettie did not visit the family again till
after the woman died, which was in a
few days. Then she went up to the
room to see the body half-decently laid
out, and about dozen candles burning
around the coffin. as the deceased had
once professed to be Roman Catholic.
But, when they went for the priest to
perform the funeral services, he would
have nothing to do with the matter.
She has not lived up to the Catholic
faith, has not been to mass or confes-
sion when she might, so will not Of
ficiate at her funeral, nor shall she be
buried in our. cemetery" said he, al
though she desired to be laid beside q
child of hers once buried there. So one
of the good Methodist ministers in the
city kindly offered his services, and,
after making appropriate remarks and a
prayer, her remains were taken to one
VI Iu0 ClGJ bOLAUS- ouu SlIOIO OOPOo1UOu'
This event made a great impression
on Hettie's mind. II will never COM
plain again." she said. "My condition
is so much better than this, I am sure I
ought to be quite happy" So she
worked on from day to day with hearty
thanks to her Maker for giving her
strength to do it. She also went quite
often to the attic to help the three
lonely creatures left there, each Of
whom was becoming more and more
helpless. And, with what she did for
them, and was the means of others
doing, they were made quite comforta-
BILE. Nor did these extra efforts of
Hettie's work ruin to her health; on the
other hand, she seemed to be given adj
ditional strength and courage for this
work of helping her fellow-creatures.
By coming in contact with the mis-
fortunes and sufferings of others, her
thoughts were drawn away from herself,
and she dwelt less on her own bodily
infr1nities. Thus God gives strength
to those who are ready to help fight
the battle of life for others than them
selves.-Chicago Ledger.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02
The Lost Umbrella.

"Therel" she cried, in an excited
voice: 81 should like to know what's
become of the umbril. Isot it up agin
the counter when I come in, and afore
I could turn round it's gone-and it
was only Monday that 1 gin 4 shil-
ings and 6 pence for I'll" What kind
of an umbrella was it, ma'amP" asked
the polite clerk in his blandest tones.
" A speck and span new bingham,
young man." was the eager response,
with an iv'ry handle ont, and "a"
" Like the one in your hand, ma'am,
for instance?" "Sakes alive!" she ex-
claimed. And one might have thought
she saw a serpent rather than her own
"spick and span bingham" with the
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02
Storms in the United States.

Prof. Loomis has published some re-
suits of an elaborate critical study and
comparison of signal-service observa-
tions and weather maps, carried on for
long periods to discover the movements
and progressive velocities of United
States storms. Some of his deductions
are of great interest. He finds that
United States storm-centers, after cross
ing the Rocky mountains, move toward
the southeast until reaching the Mis-
sissippi basin, when they incline toward
the lake region with accelerated speed.
The average velocity of American
storms after crossing the Mississippi,
about twenty-five miles per hour, is 60
per cent. greater than that of European
storms. This appears paradoxical wheF
we remember that in Europe the wess
erly winds. unobstructed by any coast
range like the Rocky mountains run
ming north and south, attain more
rapid movement over the continent
than the same winds can acquire IN the
United States. But it appears from
Prof. LOOMS examination that our
storms when nearing the lakes, and
subsequently, are subjected to power
full propulsion from the waves of high
pressure which close in behind them
while in transit, and the rapid torren-
tial precipitation of rain in their front
quadrants by which the air is greatly
rarefed and a barometric channel
cleared for the free onward movement
In Europe it is very rarely that
storm advances over 1000 miles in
day. But in this country such an oc-
currence is much more frequent. The
storm-center of Jan. z, 1877, travelled
1872 miles in twenty-four hours, and
that of the following week Dan. AID
travelled 1870 miles in twenty-four
hours. The storms which have been
found to make their way at these ter
rife speeds across the United States oc-
cur on an average about once in forty
days.
But one of the most remarkable feat
ures of these great hurricanes is their
shallowness. The tremendous cyclone
of the last-named date passed Mount
Washington without disturbing its sum-
NIT, where the signal-service observers
wind-vane recorded steady wind from
one quarter during the progress of the
depression at its base. During one of
the fiercest "cold waves" of high baro-
metric pressure, the thermometer on the
summit $4,000 feet high) showed a
higher temperature than that prevailing
at the base, clearly indicating that the
Arctic wave was not deep enough to
cover the mountain. These and SINH
lar illustrations of the vertical proper
tons OF both polar waves and barometric
depressions go to prove that the chief
agitation of the serial ocean is limited
to its bottom strata, leaving the loftier
regions of the atmosphere in undis-
turbed repose, save when the great up
per current from the equatorial belt is
in the ascendency.
AS many of the great storms which
sweep over the United States are under
the control of barometric pressures ly-
ing outside of our national territory,
Prof. Loomis points out the necessity
of extending the signal-service observa-
tions to extra territorial stations, not
only with view to their complete elu-
cidation, but also for the practical pur
poses of weather telegraphy.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02
The Worshin of Giving.

We are afraid that "the worship of
giving" is not kept prominently before
the people. The old bugbear of the
contribution box" occasionally starts
up, as if Christ's church was humble
seeker of aims, where people give as to
some poor beggar who merely entreated
as favor what he has no right to re-
ceive. Giving out o: a free heart to
Gods cause is His appointed method of
carrying forward and sustaining the
gospel. Freely ye have received, free
ly give" 81 never gave to Christ's
cause since was little girl, but that
He made it up to me within six months"
said an old lady to me.-Occide11t.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-02
The Pad Agent.

He was wen-dressed, pleasant-faced
man, and he carried small black box
in his hand. He entered an insurance
Office on Congress street with a familiar
air, walked up to the sole occupant, who
was writing letter, and began:
Excuse me, sir, but represent four
different kinds of pads, viz, lung"
II am busy" interrupted the letter
writer.
"Viz., lung, liver, stomach and kid
ney, and in few days we"
"Didn't l say that 1 was busy?" de-
manded the citizen, as he put down his
pen.
"You did, sir; and in few days we
shall bring out the heart-pad, the
throat-pad and the ear-pad. Excuse
me if sit down. Please let me feel of
your pulse"
"I want none of your pads, sirl
am busy, sir, and I want my Office to
myself"
Nevertheless, you do want pad,
and can prove it. A healthy pulse
should not beat over eighty-fve per
minute. I'll bet yours goes to a hun
dred. Anyone can see that you are all
ing. I can sell you a beautiful stom-
ach-pad at reduced rates. How much
do you"
Didn't I say I didn't want any of
your pads, sir?"
Correct, you did. Do your lungs
trouble your"
mo, sir!"
aHaort all ripht9n
eyes, sill"
Hearing goodP"
"Yes, sirl"
"Ever have the backacheP"
"No, sirl"
Spleen all right?"
eyes, sir!"
"Throat bother your"
"No, sirl I tell you I don't want
any of your padsl 1 want to be let
right alonel I've got headache this
morn"
@Eurekal Keep stiIll-not world
You furnish the capital, and I'll put in
my time and well bring out head
ache-pad! Capital idea-rich thought
Go ahead and write your letter, and I'll
be-"
The citizen ran for his cane In the
corner, but the pads had walked out to
hunt for ailing humanity.-Phil0deI-
71bin B1EIIeti11