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Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1881-03-03
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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-13
An Ode.
TO \ lot OF STOVE PIPE.

Internal stnfY your nature well know,
So when took you down six months ago
Each piece numbered so that might tell
Exactly how you'd 60 together well.
And now the time for chilly days draws nigh,
To put you up again madly try.
But all in vain. The joints that then did fit,
Now do not come within an inch OF it.
Crash you go tumbling to the floor again;
Once more try. You're rather full of SCOT,
And am getting daubed from head to foot,
jam my thumb, but still persevere,
One piece goes down again and rakes my ear )
grab to catch the piece, another goes,
And falling scrapes the hide all on my nose.
And then another piece falls with q slam,
And then the rest goes down and 1 say
"dam."
And then my blood gets boiling and say,
By all that's blue, I'll fix you anyway.
Once more 60 to work. BY patience great
get all but single section straight,
And that am about to place, when, 10!
The chair stand on tips: Down nat go.
While on and round me with a horrid crash,
The whole comes down with one grand smash,
And then my wife remarks: 81 never saw
A man so clumsy" 1 say "Hold yer jawp
And for a tinsmith send, while I retire
To wash myself and swear, to vent my ire.
Boston Post.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-13
The Old Clerk.
From the Wall Street Daily News.

From the Wall Street Daily News.
He is an old gray-haired clerk in a
Wall street Office. At lunch time the
other day the boys were asking him
why he never speculated, and after
some little hesitation he replied:
"There was time when was con-
frmed stock-gambler. It was years
ago, and I was bookkeeper in Broad
way store / had some money left me
by my father, and I earned pretty
good salary; but in year after my
first deal in stocks / was cleaned out of
cash, owed for four weeks board, and
had drawn my salary a month ahead.
In this emergency I robbed the store of
$4,000 and made false entry on the
books to conceal the crime.
"1sit possibler' gasped several voices,
in chorus.
Eyes, gentlemen, it is. l knew that
I could conceal the theft for a week,
and at the end of that time I hoped to
make big strike in Wabash and be on
my feet again. I invested the stolen
money in that stock and waited. 1t
jumped up little, fell, jumped again,
and finally dropped out of sight and
swept my capital away
..And you were ruined?"
II thought SO. Discovery must come,
and my employer was man who would
have sent me to prison. determined
to go and drown myself. Discovery
must come on Saturday. Friday night
I closed the books and walked down
Beekman street to the river, calculating
to leap in and become food for sharks.
AS 1 neared the slip came upon q
stranger, sick and weak and unable to
move on. He asked me to secure car
rage for him, and said he had plenty
of money to reward me. A fendish
thought flashed through my brain; it
was hardly conceived before executed.
I grasped his throat, choked him sense
less, robbed the body, and heaved it in
to the water, and then fed"
"You don't say sop they shouted.
s.Facts, gentlemen-cold facts. His
wallet contained $4,000. I took S.
600 to replace the stolen money, and
with the rest bought me the property
now own across the river. I made a
solemn promise never to speculate
again, and have kept it."
"And were you never found outp'
"Never; and l hope none of you will
be mean enough to peach on me now"
While they looked at each other in a
strange way, the old clerk finished his
beef, wiped off his mouth and observed:
.sGot to go now. Remember, mum
is the word. If it was noised around, I
might have the victims heirs bowling
around here for compromise at fifty
cents on the dollar"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-13
The Maiden and tho Weathercook

n weathercock on the village spIre,
with vour golden feathers Sll on fire,
Tell me. what can you see from your perch
Above there, over the tower OF the church!
wEATHERcocK.
Team see the roofs, and the streets below,
And the people moving to and fro;
And beyond, without roof or street,
The great salt sea and the fsherman's feet.
can see ship come sailing in
Ieyond the headlands and harbor Of Lynn,
And young man standing on the deck
with a silken kerchief round his neck.
Now he is pressing it to his lips,
And now he is kissing his finger tips;
And now he is lifting and waving his hand,
And blowing the kisses toward the landl
MAIDEN.
All, that is the ship from over the sea
That is bringing my lover back to mel
Bringing my lover, so fond and true,
Who does not change with the wind, like you.
wEATHERCocK.
If change with all the winds that blow,
It is only because they made me so;
And people would think it wondrous strange
I'll, W eathercock, should not changei
o pretty Maiden, so fine and fair,
With your dreamy eyes and your golden hair
When you and your lover meet to-day,
You will thank me for looking some other
way. Henry W. L0RQfelloaU.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-13

Mr.. Forster, the Secretary for Ireland
in Mr.. Gladstone's cabinet, while lunch
ing in a well-known dining room in
Dublin the other day, found himself
playing involuntarily the role of Haroun
al Raschid. At the same table was an
outspoken young gentleman, whose adj
vances toward conversation were not
declined by the Irish Secretary. Ia a
short time the conversation turned on
the state of anarchy in which the west
and south of Ireland is plunged, and
the opening remarks of the young gen
tleman were so truly liberal that Mr..
Forster thought they had met on COM
mon ground. This opinion was, how
ever, somewhat modified when his
companion, warming with the subject,
said: "Some reform in land tenure viii
certainly be necessary, when the coun-
try becomes settled, but no wonder it
is in such a state when we are governed
by that id old fool, Buckshot Fors-
teri
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-13
Princess Louise's Tart

The Princess Louise, says The Hour,
is a lady of much good taste, with a
large fund of common sense. The SUE
pervision of her household affairs is up
on the model characteristic of all well
appointed English households. Agentle-
man who has weakness for apricot
tart dined with her short time before
she left for England. To his delight,
apricot tart was included in the menu,
and he expressed his fondness for it.
81 am so glad you like it, replied
his hostess; ssbecatse I made it myself.
Let me give you the recipe" and with
genial interest she detailed its ingred-
tents. Remember, when you get
home, to tell Mrs. j, that apricot
tart should always have an upper
crust.''
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-13
What do Novels Teach7
rom Blackwood's Magazine.

| From Blackwood's Magazine.
| 1t has been claimed BY one of the
chief novelists of the day, we think Mr..
Trollope, who certainly has right to
| be heard on the subject, that novels
teach people, and especially young peo-
| pie, how to talk, and have had dis
tinct influence in shaping the stream
not very brilliant one-of English
conversation. Perhaps this is rather
a strong statement, and it would be
more true to say that English novels
influence English conversation as the
Times leads popular opinion, be devin-
ing and echoing professionally with
a clever semblance of forestalling and
originating. 1t is somewhat curious,
by the way. when we come to think OF
it, and by no means complimentary to
the novelists, that they, as we have just
said, do so little to guide or help those
who may have complications OF life to
60 through very similar to the compli
cations which form the subjects of
modern romance. This is question
which writer's of fiction would do well
to ponder. Who has been helped
through one of the difficulties by the ex-
ample of the last study of life which
even the most potent of contemporary
magicians has set before him? Perhaps
the reason is that scarcely apprecia-
BILE portion of humanity are those who
troubled by the special problems which
the novelist prefers to investigate and
fathom. For example, there are curl
ously few bigamists in good society,
80 or
than any other subject with some nov
elists. And few of US, after all, very
few, make eccentric wills, which are
still more largely used. AS for the one
grand problem of which all the novels
are full, which is how to get ourselves
beloved and married, that, it is proverb-
ial, is a question in which nobody will
take any advice or profit by any ex-
ample. Here human nature always
feels it's situation unique and its circum-
stances unexampled. If there ever was
silly maiden like Lydia Languish in
real life, demanding to be wooed
Enthusiastically and mysteriously; to be
run away with and fiattered by clan
destine VOWS, in imitation of her favor
tie heroine, we are very sure there
never was any one who learned pru-
dence and patience from the most ex-
emplary of fictitious women. No doubt
it pleases the young couple who have to
wait for each other through lingering
engagement to read of others in the
same circumstances; but we doubt if
man or woman ever got a hint for the
speedier termination of their embar-
easements through those of their..cotem-
poraries in fiction. 1t is by no means
to be desired that novelists should give
up this subject which is sacred to them,
but in which nobody viii be guided by
an experience save their own; yet it
would be well for them in other points
to consider this deficiency. They are
the recognized opponents of social life;
it is their task to exhibit men and
women in the midst of all its compli-
cations, and it is reproach to them
that they do nothing to help their
fellow-creature wi nay have similar
trails to GO tilrc
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-13
The Use Of tbs Razor

Touching upon the question whether
members of the French bar should be
permitted to grow their boards, writer
in a Partisan contemporary gives some
particulars showing how many men
eminent in various ways have been de-
voices of the razor. He begins by chal-
longing proof that, apart from very
few exceptions, no great orator has
ever wore beard and moustache. Among
eminent French speakers and statesmen,
Mirabeau, Danton, Vergniaud, Berger,
Foy, Manuel, Chateaubriand, De Brog-
lie, Mole, Odillon Barrot, Casimir Per-
Ter, Guizot, Theirs and Montalembert
all shaved. The moustache is thought
to be a distinctive military adornment,
yet it was notworn by Alexander, Cesar,
Pompey, Trajan, or Napoleon. The
great marshals of the French army dis
dained it, and not one of the generals
of the first empire permitted it to sprout
upon his lip. Revolutionists are popu-
larly supposed to be marked by unkept
boards. Yet Robespierre, Marat, Saint
Just and Herbert were as carefully
shaven as the grand monarque himself.
Of French writer's and poets, Moliere
and Corneille wore the Richelieu NOUS
tache, but Racine, Pascal, LaFontaine,
Boileau. La Bruyere, Voltaire, Rous-
seau, Dideroti Montesquieu, and all the
thinkers and savants Of the eighteenth
century INDUCED in 3 clean shave. So
did Dante and Petrarch, Byron and
Shelley, Pope and Addison, Sheridan
and Goldsmith, Swift and Johnson, Field
ing and Richardson, Pitt Burke and Fox.
Among eminent Frenchmen of very re-
cent times, Lamartine, DeVigny, Victor
Hugo till his exile), Michelet, Emile
de Giradin, Carrel, Baudelaire, Louis
Blanc and Sardou made, or still make
an uncompromising use of the razor, in
this respect following the example of
Haydn, Gluck, Mozsat, Piccini, Gina
rosa, Mehul, Weber, Cherubini, Herold,
Beethoven, Bellini, Rossini, Meyerbeer,
and Auber. There is much to be
said on the other side, no doubt, but it
seems as though space should be found.
in the escutcheon of genius for . razor
and barber's pole. While the argu-
ments adduced are undoubtedly estab-
lished, yet all orators are not French
men, and in looking at the long and il
lustrious list of statesmen of other
countries we find among them many
adorned with hirsute appendages.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-13
The French Eccentrics Of 1880.

The band of writer's who in the 1880
period formed the nucleus of the Ro-
mantle school, delighted in practical
jokes of the widest and generally the
most harmless kind There was one of
them who gravely dragged live lob
ster, which he said he had tanned,
| through the streets of Paris at his heels.
| 1t was painted red, SO as to look, as
they said, more natural, and was har-
messed with blue ribbon. Two others
Of the band, Rousseau and Romieu, are
hardly known, even by name, except to
the people who have'made,a special study
Of the time. Rousseau it was who help
ed Dumas to get his first piece-a little
farce-put on the stage, and he was a
man who had considerable talent. I'm
fortunately he had considerable habit
Of getting drunk. He and Romieu were
kind of Damon and Pythias, but
Romieu managed at least to appear So
Der, and was rewarded by being made
project of some country place. Rous
seau, when he heard of this, immediate
ly concluded that he would be made
Romieu's secretary, and enjoy a COM
Portable sinecure. When he stated this
idea to his friend, Romieu replied that
he didn't know if he had power to ap-
point a secretary. Would Rousseau
come back in day or twop He came
back, and Romieu said gravely: Il have
been making inquiries"
'About what?''
"About you. They tell me you drink.
Icannot take you with me-"
This story may be an invention of
Dumas; but one which he tells of one
of Rousseau's jokes bears the stamp of
truth. Rousseau went into grocer's
shop and said: "Have you any eight
| candles?"
Eyes, sir; we sell a good many of
them. You see there are more poor
people than rich in the world.'
.'Ah!'' said Rousseau, II see you are
more than grocer-you are an obser-
ver."
.Oh, sirr' said the grocer, fattered,
''then you want, sir"
"An eight candle, please"
"Only one, sir?'
s.One to begin with; I'll see about
more afterwards"
The candle was produced and Rous-
seau said: ''Will you kindly cut it in
two?" This was done and he then said:
"Now would you kindly cut the two
halves into fourP'
"Into four, sir?"
Eyes; for my purpose I want eight
small pieces of candle"
"There they are, SIR"
Zone moment; would you kindly
make wick to each piece? And now
can you obige me with match?''
This being done Rousseau stuck the
eight pieces liz line on the counter and
| lighted them.
MAY 1 ask what you are doing?" said
the grocer.
'Ohr' said Rousseau, lit is joke"
"a joker"
Eyes; and having made it, wish you
good day."
As he left the shop the grocer ran af-
ter him crying: ''But YOU haven't paid
me for the candle!'
eff did," replied Rousseau, ''where
would be the joker
Dumas excelled in telling and embel-
fishing stories of this kind; and readers
of the .Three Muskctcers' will remem-
Der many passages Il which the heroes
of that immortal work are concerned in
equally childish -. les.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-13

Gutter literature has never lacked
patrons in Paris. Of late, however, the
grossness and profigacy of the books,
prints. and photographs sold openly in
the shops have reached such pitch that
the government has interfered. Gil
Bias, about the most notable offender.
is said to have enjoyed a circulation of
100000. Recently it published a story
so foul that its editor was arrested and
committed for trial.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-13

udIlOA na0 SOAARASoNAy wv HO"NA~~ ~
the moment all sense of the bureaucrat-
ic properties; ''the house is tumbling
down, and if we don't make haste and
get out of it the devil will have US all,
in spite of our being in the archiepisco-
pal palace!''
There is great complaint at Oxford
respecting the singular course pursued
by the authorities in regard to theatres
and music halls. Dramatic perform
ances and dramatic clubs are prohibit
ed at Oxford as not conducive to moral
ity, and the eyes of fast undergraduates
are not permitted to be polluted by the
impure creatures of Shakespeare. The
only performance tolerated during term
by the Reverend Vice Chancellor and
the worshipful the Mayor is that known
as s.the variety" The chief character
istics of this form of amusement at the
ssVic'' are painted and powdered wO-
men, whose dresses and gestures border
on the highly indecent; songs which
convey extremely broad illusions to the
most unintelligent brain; drunken oc-
cupiers of the boxes; tumbling out of
them into the pit or on to the footlights,
from which they are dragged with diff
Guilty by their friends; frequent attempts
to storm the stage and kiss the perform
ers, and, lastly, breakdown by trio
of inebriates on the stage when the cur
tain has fallen. A thick, unwholesome
atmosphere of smoke, oaths, and gen.
eral uproar pervades the theatre,
through which the blue-coated guar
dian Of the peace smiles down benignly
on the proprietor of the entertainment
in his much admired and encored per-
Torrance, the Limerick Rhymes"
The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1881-05-07

with her own hands"
did you ask her where she got
the phial of strychnine that was
found in her bureau drawer, and
what she had bought it for2'
"Ah, ha! yes, | did, because l
wanted to know what she was doing
with it, you yee."
"Well, what did she say when you
questioned her about itg'
She said she would rather not
tell"
81 tried to persuade her to tell
me, but she positively refused to do
it,"
"Please describe the room in
which the boy died, Doctor"
1t was a small room on the sec;
ond floor Of the building, separated
from Miss BramIett's room by a
plank partition wall. There was a
small door in the partition wall, the
shutter Of which opened in Miss
Bramlett's room. Did you exam
inc the phlal Of strychnine that was
found in Miss Bramlett's bureau
drawer9 If so, how much Of it had
been taken Out!"
"Ah, ha! yes, ] found a small
quantity had been taken out; CAM
say how much"
"Take the witness, Mr.. Rock
land"
Stand aside if you please
growIed that individual, we have nc
questions to ask the witness.
l. (To BE CONTINUED
The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1881-05-07

Enterprise Courier: The impor.
tant question in our State cam
paign will not be whether a man
is a "bourbon" or a conservative"
but simply is he in favor of good
government; does he believe in a
safe and economical administration,
and is he unalterably opposed to
the return Of the Radical party TO
power. There may be differences
of opinions on minor matters,
but the important matter on which
there is and should be no differ
ence, overshadows everything else.
The State is only safe in the hands
of intelligent white people, and
they have determined to never
consent to be ruled by an inferior
race.
The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1881-05-07

Macon Sun: There are not more
than $50 boys al the Agricultural
and Mechanical college. About
fifty per cent. have gone home, and
some have died. Whoever caused
those boys to go into that damp
unfinished brick building should be
blamed. The college vas opened
at least a year to soon--but if the
institution can survive the man.
agement of this year We have great
hone of its final success.
The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1881-05-07
GIVE IT TO THE BABIES.

The following letter speaks for it.
sell:
Saltville, Va, Feb. 7th, 1881.
Messrs Landrum & LitchlieId, Alb
ingdon, Va,
You need not send the "Baby
Food" (Grannum) ordered of you a
few days ago as we have found
something better. We got out Of
the medicine we had been giving
the baby for the last month or so,
and we happened to have some of
your Iron and Alum Mass on hand
| persuaded my wife TO try lS She
did so and it acted like a Charm.
We have been giving it to him now
about a week, and he has a better
appetite and rests better than for
a long time. If it continue, 10 do
him good. we shall not need any
more Baby Food, CORN BaGAn and
GRAVY agrees with him since be has
been taking the Mass ana we
can now get a pretty good nights
rest. Yours truly,
VIM. Buchanan,
For sale by }. Y. hurry u Son
and N. q. Carter, Druggists
Ripley, Miss.
The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1881-05-07

The Kinds County Gazette says:
sit is very evident that the Green.
back leaders Of this State are in
close communion with the Repub-
llcan party, and propose to sell Out
their party, bag ana baggage, to
Garfield"
Is That sog
The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1881-05-07
HAND THEM ARounn.

The "Only" Lung Pad Company,
OF Detroit, Mich. has failed to pay
its little bills, and two or three
thousand papers, scattered all over
the vast illimitable West, are cloth
ed in sackcloth and ashes. "Let
us rejoice, BRETHREN" says a bitten
Illinois editor, shat it is The Only
Lung Pad Company. We hope
there will never be any other.-N
Q. Times.
The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1881-05-07

A Committee OF leading citizens
of Holly Springs was in Memphis
Wednesday, for the purpose of max
ing arrangements for the building
of the Memphis Il Selma Railroad.
1t is believed the road will be com.
pleted to Holly Springs this sea.
son.
The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1881-05-07

Gilmore & Co., G29 f Street.
Washington, D. O., request every
Soldier or Sailor who served IN the
Union Army during the late war,
to send his name and post Office al
dress on a postal card. Write
plainly name, post Office, county
and State. In return you will re
ceive a copy Of a new paper,
AMERICA, containing valuable
information.
The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1881-05-07

Aberdeen examiner: Senator
David Davis says that 'll the Dem.
ocratic party would disband the
Republican party would fall to
pieces" That's all right, Mr.. Da-
Wis; this is a free country and ev.
cry man has The right TO give ex
preston to his own private feelings
and opinions, but some how we
would prefer to see the "Galling to
pieces" occur first. As the Irish.
man said when the fellow proposed
to deal four kings to him, "Can't
you give me an ace for the fifth
card in order to establish a grand
confidence?
The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1881-05-07

The Commencement Sermon at
the A, & M. College, Starkville,
Miss, will be preached by Rev. DR..
Burrows, on Sunday, July 3rd 1881.
The Annual Address will be deliv.
ed on July 9th, by Hon. L. Q. 9.
Lamar.