Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-09
THIS AND THAT.

CAPS and hats came into general uss
about 1449.
WORDS are cheap except when they
are sent over the Atlantic cable.
ENGINES on the Pennsylvania railroad
use 10000 tons of sand annually.
WHY is blacksmith like q safe steed7
Because one is a horseshoer and tha
other is sure horse.
TALK about breaking childis will
it's great deal easier to break mans:
That is, for lawyers.
3AUNTY, vat makes de little baby cry
SOP Do it want IL mudderp" ayes,
dear, and its fodder, too"
MIKE HoGG is the name of q Kentucky
journalist. He AYERS, however, that he
doesn't write with pig pen.
IT rains alike on the just and the un-
just-on the just mainly because the
unjust have borrowed their umbrellas.
To REMOVE rust from steel, rub well
with sweet oil; in forty-eight hours use
unslacked lime, powdered very fine; rub
till the rust disappears.
ONE THOUSAND shingles, laid four
inches to the weather, will cover 100
square feet of surface, and FIVE pounds
OF shingle nails will fasten them On.
THERE are ninety-fiye lakes in Iowa,
covering an area Of 81, 900 acres. Should
these lakes dry up, as some of them are
doing, the land will belong to the Gov
eminent.
The small boy who can ride a three
wheeled velocipede in the hall, and beat
drum at the same time, has qualities
calculated to make home happy when he
is not well.
The Detroit Free Press does not be-
ieve In the new process which claims to
be able to make all fabrics waterproof.
It would Like to see a yard of waterproof
mosquito-bar.
AN Iowa paper says that 'the Dea
Moines ladies have made q compact to
remain at home Friday afternoons to
receive calls" But if they all remain at
home who will do the calling?
On, banded with pansy and curtained with white.
Yellow with gold from the sunset sky,
Laced with the shadelets of latticing Light
Silken and soft as a vanishing sigh
oh, what can you say of bonnet, doggoanit,
When writing sonnet upon 1t?
BUoKwHEAT-sTRAw, which heretofore
has been considered of little value, has
of late been utilized by some of the
Western farmers by chopping it fine
and adding meal to it. A small guam
tity fed to stock occasionally would be
relished, no doubt.
PROF. SHELTON, of the Kansas Agri-
cultural College, fayors September
calves, because, dropped in that month,
they escape the trying heats of summer,
can be pushed during the winter with
grain, and in spring are ready for grass
as soon as it appears.
A GOOD test of the hardness of any
variety of forest trees is found in the
ripening of its seeds (fruit). If a tree
does not perfect its seeds in q given 10
cality, it is good evidence that it is NOT
sufficiently hardy to be generally Guilt
waited in such sections.
A CONTEMPORARY asks Puck: Is
kissing dangerous?" and that paper an
swers: "That altogether depends. II
the young lady ignores poisonous
enamels, and her father doesn't enter
the parlor in the midst of the labial ex-
eroises, kissing may be INDUCED in with
IMMUNITY. Kissing another mans wife
is dangerous, we beieve-if her hus-
band catches them in the act"
A MAN, Intercepted by Judge of
Instruction, in France, on a charge of
numbering his mistress, stared vacantly,
and long appeared unconscious of what
was going on, but, on probing ques-
ton being put, he suddenly defended
himself with great intelligence. "Ah,"
said the Judge, Il see you have been
Stimulating insanity" @No," was the
answer, Il was mad, but my reason has
inst returned to me-"