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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-02
Catching A Thief.

The following expedient for catching a
thief was adopted in provincial town in
England some thirty years ago:
A miller residing near a place called
Beverly, whose place had been entered fol-
some time previously almost every night
and considerable quantity of grain abb
stracted, hit upon very ingenious expedient
for the detection of the offender.
The means of ingress was by putting a
finger through hole in the door, which
uplifted the latch. On the night in ques-
ton the miller set large box-trap, and
hung it inside the door, so that the thief
would be obliged to touch the spring in
opening the door.
Having taken this precaution, he left it
for the night, and on going the following
morning his expectations were realized by
finding fellow suspended from the door by
his finger! The miller, after severely adj
monishing the thief for his crime, and
taking in consideration the suferings the
poor wretch had undergone, gave him the
choice of abiding by the law, or receive q
good horse whipping.
1t is needless to add that he preferred the
latter alternative, which the miller admin
istercd, with the full power of stalwart
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-02
The Son of Louis XVI.

A writer in the London Times says: GA
certain mystery has always shrouded the
death of Louis XVI.'s miserable son. No
chapter in the grim annals of the revolution
is more revolving than that which records
the slow torment by which the vulgar ty-
rants of the Committee on Public Safety
wore the life out of their wretched little
prisoner. After being used most vilely as
an instrument of moral torture against his
unhappy mother, the boy was given over to
the shoemaker Simon, and for months lies
perishing,' says Carlyle, with rather mis-
placed sarcasm, amid squalor and darkness,
lamentably, so as none but poor factory
children and the like are wont to perish and
not to be lamented. In this misery, how
ever, as all the world believed, the Dauphin
did die, and the Revolutionary Government
attempted to place the fact beyond dispute
by drawing up formal and authenticated
documents, certifying his death and burial.
The rights of the House of Bourbon then
passed to the brothers of Louis XVI.-to
the childless Compile de Provence, afterwards
Louis XVIII, and to the Compile d'Artois
who succeeded his brother as Charles X.
and whose grandson, the posthumous Sol
of the Due de Berri, is now the object of
Legitimist aspirations.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-02
EGG DANCE IN INDIA.

This is not, as one might expect from the
name given il, dance upon these fragile
objects. It is executed in this wise: The
dancer, dressed in corsage and very
short skirt, carries willow wheel Of mod
crate diameter fastened horizontally upon
the top of her head. Around this wheel
threads are fastened, equally distant from
each other, and at the end of each of these
threads is sip-noose, which is kept open
by a glass bead. Thus equipped, the
young girl comes toward the spectators
with basket full of eggs, which she
passes around for inspection, to prove that
they are real, and not limitations. The
music strikes up jerky, monotonous
strain, and the dancer begins to whirl
around with great rapidity. Then, Selling
an egg she puts it in one of the slip-nooses,
and, with quick motion, throws it from
her in such way as to draw the knot tight.
The swift turning of the dancer produces
a centrifugal force which stretches the
thread out straight like a ray shooting
from the circumference of the circle. One
after another the eggs are thrown out
in these slip-nooses, until they make hor-
izontal aureole or halo about the dancers
head. Then the dance becomes still more
rapid-so rapid in fact that it is difficult to
distinguish the features of the girl; the
moment is critical; the least false step,
the least irregularity in time, and the
eggs dash against each other. But how
can the dance be stopped? There is but
one way-that is to remove the eggs in the
way in which they have been put in place.
This operation is by far the more delicate
of the two. 1t is necessary that the dancer
by single motion. exact and unerring,
should take hold OF the egg, and remove it
from the moose. A single false motion of
the hand, the least interference with one Of
the threads, and the general arrangement
is suddenly broken, and the whole per-
Torrance disastrously ended. At last all
the eggs are successfully removed; the
dancer suddenly stops, and without SEEM
ing in the least dizzied by the dance of
twenty-five or thirty minutes, she adj
vances to the spectators with firm step,
and presents them the eggs, which are i'm
mediately broken in fiat dish to prove
that there is no trick about the perform
ance,-ScribnerS Monthlu
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-02
BE A MAN,

Foolish spending is the father Of poverty.
Do not be ashamed Of work. Work for the
wages you can get, but work for half price
rather than be idle. Be your own master
and do not let fashion or society swallow
up your Observation-Disclosures, coat, and boots.
Compel your selfish body to spare some.
thing for profits saved. Be stingy to your
necessities. See that you are proud. Let
your pride be Of the right kind. Be too
proud to be lazy; too proud to give up
without conquering every difficulty; too
proud to wear coat you cannot afford to
buy; too proud TO b n company you can
not keep up With IN expenses; too proud to
lie Or steal o. chest; too proad to b
stingy.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-02
Camille.

A row of lamps that flame and flare
A strangely troubled world behind,
With passion, like desert wind,
To breathe its fierce enchantment there.
regal beauty, strangely fair,
"a paid face, behind whose smile
A touch of pathos bides the while)
With white camelias in her hair.
The music of a woman's voice
Whose laughter ended in n moan,
Like sweet bells tangled in tone
No sound to make the heart rejoice.
The dawning of a brighter morn,
A rifting in the clouds above,
For her who gave back love for love,
Yet dared to battle scorn with scorn.
The resting of a wind-tossed bark,
A sweet dream in gloomy night,
The memory of whose vanished lighs
But makes the shadows dOubly dark.
The gfarIng world of sin once more,
The hollow mirth, the scornful smiles.
The pitch that touches and deGles,
And then the sacrifice is DER.
Mirth, music, song-all, all have fled
The dawning of eternal peace;
A weary heart hath found surcease;
A lover mourneth DER his dead.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-02
PIPES.

In styles Of pipes have experimental
largely; have sounded the gamut of plain
clay, gambler, meerschaum, land chip
charcoal, porcelain, and brier. The plain
clay-the cutty-is workmanlike and dem.
ocratic; think I would adoptit if wer,
running for high Office. Gambler is rather
fantastic, but colors as easily as sweet six
teen; to me it is an objection that, being
made in moulds, I know not how many
thousand people may be putting at the
twin brother or sister of that between my
fingers. As for the charcoal, they prom
ised well, and were not without their sea-
son of popularity; there was something OF
classic elegance and simplicity in Their
smooth black dress and silver trimming
But they didn't wear well, somehow; they
broke and got incurable croup,and of course
never altered their color for better or
worse. And the porcelain was hard and
harsh, heating and unabsorbent; so the
question finally lay between meerschaum
dlu OIlcT. 4NOW, tAtil d uuc picCc VI u NC
meerschaum nothing is more fascinating
sweeter, handsomer. Mark its tender,
creamy tint, its soft, fine lustre, its smooth
texture. Lift tit is light as sponge
and you can almost indent it by the pres
sure of your fingers. You fill it (rather, if
you are wise, you fill false bowl set or
to it, and as you draw in the smoke you
can almost see the delicate brown flushing
deeper and deeper through the white. By
slow degrees, lest you overhead it, with
most jealous care, lest you chip or scratch
it, do you prosecute the experiment, until,
after some weeks or months, the point of
perfection is attained. There is nothing
comparable to the warm, intense brown,
mottled and shaded, rich and polished,
which is now diffused around the bowl.
It is not like moss agates, nor oriental
marble, nor precious woods, yet it brings
all these delicately to mind. The color
lies in clusters; as it were, yet shades off
uniformly toward the lip. which is burned
white. Around the neck it is deepest and
thickest, and just here you can hardly call
it less than black. There is similar DIFF
ference between the pipe now and in its
primitive purity, to that between a sunlit
cloud at midday and the same gilded and
empurpled by the splendor of sunset.
Not always, however, nor indeed often, is
such success in meerschaum-c oloring met
with. In the first place, instead of meer-
schaum, it turns out to be "chip," which is
shavings Of meerschaum welded together,
and so recut; the pipes look well enough
in the shop, but all the sponginess and
delicacy is lost; the oil cannot penetrate,
or comes out in blotches here and there;
the bowl becomes rusty and dirty, all the
perique in the world can produce nothing
better on it than dirty yellow tint, irreg-
ularly distributed, and the draft gets east
ly clogged. Similar is the result should
the pipe prove-meerschaum, indeed, but
of hard, impenetrable variety. Moth
ing can be done; you may boil it and burn
it, and make it all sorts of colors, but you
deceive neither yourself nor any one else
into thinking it comparable to the genuine,
inimitable "sea-foam."- GGIGrU.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-02
WHO FIRST DREW DOWN THE LIGHT
NINGe

The history of lightning conductors ex-
ordinarily dated from the memorable even
ing when Benjamin Franklin, accompanied
by his eldest son, succeeded in the bold
experiment of drawing lightning from the
clouds down the conductor afforded by the
wet string of silken kite. 1t is 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 a sort of satisfac-
ton, on behalf of the Old World, in being
taught to antedate this triumph of expert
mental sagacity, though only by few days,
in favor of an experiment made at the sug-
gestion of Button by M. Dalibard. At
Marty la-Ville, 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-level Here wooden scaffolding
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 APP
paratus. Shortly after the whole was fixed,
on May TO-, 1852, (6fty-fve days before the
observation at Philadelphia thunderstorm
came on. NJ. Daibard was absent in Paris,
but he had left the apparatus in charge of
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,
N. Daibard startled the Academic DIES
Sciences by reading report of this first
great experiment made as to aerial cleo
tricity. -Each0nqe.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-02

There is a story in circulation that the
body of deceased person being exhumed at
Bangor, was found to weigh eighteen pounds
more than when buried five years before. 1t
was as perfect in shape and feature as when
buried, and its entire surface seemed to be
OVERLAND with marble-like enamel, white
and clear as alabaster."
Anything that contributes to the happi-
ness and sweet peace of woman is far reach
ing for good, noble in design, benefcent in
results and worthy Of most respectful recog-
uition.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-02

That was rather unpleasant situation
in which Moses NJ. Stearns, a diver, found
himself in Boston Harbor, the other day.
He had gone down in his armor, when
3 vessel near him gave lurch. and he
was thrown to the bottom of the sea,
while the tube for supplying him with air
became so entangled as to be useless.
He, however, seized the tube and hauled
himself to the surface. just in time to save
ole life.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-02

AT funeral at Madison, Me-, lately, the
man who was buried was placed beside
two of his dead wives, while two living
ones attended the funeral.
That life Is long which answers lifs's
great end; the tree that bears no fruit de-
serves no name; the man ct wisdom is The
man Of years.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-02
The TerrOrs of Want.

In our large cities, really deserving peo-
pie frequently suffer a great deal from actual
want Yet, thanks to private charity, case
of absolute starvation, when man or
woman is thoroughly healthy, is almost inn
possible. There may be phases of misery
quite as terrible as death at the time they
occur. to sensitive natures, which may help
to kill the individual but death, at least
among men. from inanition caused by want
flood, seldom happens in busy cities. Men
may be i'll and feeble, so that they cannot
work, and then they perish. An unfor-
tunate foreigner not along ago gave his sa d
experience of want. 81 fell i'll when came
to this country two months ago; have been
in hospital six weeks; thought Twas better,
but am i'll again; tried to get to the hospital,
butsomehow the people there would not take
me back. have been sleeping in stable
where an Irishman let me have an empty
stall. Ihave been starving for the last week.
l am too weak to work, and too proud to
beg. l have lived mostly only on what l
could find in the wash-tubs of the markets,
and occasional crusts of cast-away bread.
Yesterday, being Sunday, most like to have
persisted" American people have kind
hearts; the man was well cared for when
his condition was known, and he now fills
worthily an independent position. See to
it that kindly charity does not die in your
hearts, that the poor we have always with
us NAV not die of want and misery.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-02

THE Connecticut room in the Mt. Ver-
non Mansion on the Potomac is the only
one of the thirteen set apart for the original
States which is not yet adequately fur
nished, and money is to be raised by enter
tainments at the Bridgeport Opera House
to fix up and buy q set of furniture OF Con-
necticut wood in the style of 1776.
PASSENGERS to the Pacific by rail breakfas,
IN the Sierras with twenty feet of snow
around them; four hours later they find
wheat four inches high, and the next day
see pear and peach trees in blossom.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-06-01
Ice intile North Atlantic.

NEW YORK, May 2S.--At St Johns,
n. F., special says that the season of
marine disasters through collision with
zee foes in the North Atlantic has al
ready commenced. The large English
ron steamship Rarzani has just had a
narrow escape from total destruction
thu ough collision with doe forty miles
southeast of Gull Island, off Cape John
Her bow was stove in and the forward
compartment filled with water. Had
he struck abaft the forward compart-
ment all on board must have gone down
almost instantaneously. She had full
cargo OF copper ore. Through the siren
uouS exertions Of the officers and crew
the ship got safely into Belts Cove.
The ice pack is now travelling south
ward, one of the heaviest that ever
pas sed the shores of Newfoundland, and
from the average Of its southern drift
it must within few daye intercept the
track of all ocean steamers running be.
tween Great Britain and several ports
of the United States. There are count
iess ieebergs o. unwonted size. Dur
ing the past fow days several of these
tremendous Arctic monsters passed
within sight of the highlands of St.
Johns, one OF which was not less than
1000 feet in length aud 500 feet high.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-06-01

What little respect any Republican
may have had left for Conkling all van
ished when he went to Albany, where
the Legislature of New York is in ses-
sion, and where be went to importunc
members for their votes for his re-elec-
ton to the U. S. Senate. He resigned
his seat confident his own great State
would Immediately endorse his action
by sending him back. But he finds
even at his home enough manhood to
withstand his Establishments or his
threats. All the news from there ind
cate he will be censured for his VIM
dictive spirit and childish folly. He is
already humiliated and punished iD
failing to obtain majority favorab e
to bis return, and to this time it is evil
dent he can only be elected by the al,
o. Democratic votes These it is said
he will not refuse. Another fear Of
his success may be the use OF money.
But with oil these, and the presence al
Albany of Vice President Arthur to
assist him, we doubt if he can he re-
turned. The conduct of the Vice Pres
iaent in this matter is, by the way, an.
other of the disgraceful scenes accom-
panying this wholly disgraceful piec,
of business. The idea of the Vice Pres
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-06-01
North Washington Robbery.

BY oversight last week we omitted
the full account of the robbing of the
Gibson and Harper store, of North
Washington. this county. The follow
ing are the particulars in brief as we
have learned them: The store, hard
ware, was broken into on the morning
Of the Doth of May, t! safe was broken
open and s. me 81 800 in money obtain
ed Tools, which had been obtained
at a smith shop in the village, were
found on the floor, but the entrance to
the safe was effected without injury to
the lock From this it is conjectured
that the thieves had knowledge of
the safe, its combination, ETC., and had
therefore been enabled to open it with
out breaking its lock. 1t is possible
that they might, by accident, have hit
upon the right combination, and it is
possible the safe was not locked on
that night. After having effected their
object they broke into Mr.. Harper's
dry goods store, just across the street,
and took lot of dry goods, which were
afterwards found near by. Suspicion
at first rested upon no one, but we
learn that some parties have or will be
arrested. This robbery, with the one
shortly previous at Centreyille, this
county, and the one since at Fredonia.
Mercer county, indicates an organized
gang of thieves who are prowling
about our country villages seeking
what they may steal We hope they
may soon be detected, tried and pun
jShed
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-06-01
REPUBLICAN PRIMARY.

The following are the rgles adopted
by the County Committee, at its last
meeting, for the government of the prl-
mary elections
1st. The primary election shall be held at the
regular voting place in each election district.
2nd. The election board shall consist of one
Judge and two clerks, to be chosen by the Re-
publican electors present at the opening of the
polls, and said board shall keep Q list Of all
persons voting in each election district i'll The
order in which each vote is polled, numbering
the name and ballot as the same is cast and
placed in the ballot box.
3rd Said several boards are instructed not
to receive any votes but those known to be Re-
publicans and legally qualified to vote, and no
person shall be allowed to vote at any other
than his regular voting precinct
4th- The Return Judges elected shall meet
at the Court House, in Butler, on the day fixed
by the County Committee, bringing with them
the list Of votes from their respective districts,
together with the tally sheet and certificate
of the election beard of the number of votes
east for each candidate. The tickets shall be
left with the Judge of election who shall keep
them ready TO produce in case they may be
called for by the convention, and the vote OF
any district faiiipg TO return a list of voters a
tally sheet and certificate Of iho cgction officers
as aforesaid shall not be counted until the SAME
are produced.
5th. In case of tie vote between the candi-
dates for any office, the parties between whom
such tie shall cast lots in presence of the
convention, and the successful party shall be
declared the nominee
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-06-01
Repre- sentative Huhns New
lax Bill,

Representative Samuel Huhn, Of
Philadelphia, read in place in the
House a new bill designed to raise
revenue for the State by taxation. The
provisions of the bill are as follows:
For kissing pretty girl, one dollar.
For kissing homely one, two dol
lars The tax is levied in order to break
up the custom altogether, it being re-
garded as piece of inexcusable absurd
ity.
Fer every Irritation, ten cents.
For every young man who has more
than one girl, five dollars
Counting in the back parlor, twenty
FIVE cents.
Counting in romantic places, Ave
dollars, and fifty cents for each time
thereafter
For girl giving young man the
mtten ,hve dollars and cost Of suit.
Seeing q young lady home fir ON
church, twenty cents.
Failing to see her home, five dollars
and costs.--Er.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-06-01
JUICE CUES.
TlON.

UP to this writing, Tuesday, there
is no certainty that the Judiciary bill
will be passed and approved. 1t has
to receive another reading in the House,
and then goes back to the Senate for
concurrence in some amendments made
in the House. The Republicans of this
county will therefore, in all probability,
have to vote for candidate for Asso-
ciate Judge of this county at their pri-
maries on Saturday next. If the bill
is passed and approved in its present
shape before or by Monday next, the
day for the meeting of the County
Convention of return Judges, to cast
up the votes. then that fact can be made
known at that time. AS the matter
stands there is no other way than to go
on and vote for candidate at the pri-
mary on Saturday. BY the way we
might repeat that we have seldom
known more indignation to exist than
does among our people at the way in
which this Judicial bill matter was in
troduced and put through the Senate
at Harri sburg.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-06-01

COL. DANKS' LECTURE.

Within the past few years there
have been many interesting addresses
delivered in our Court House here.
They have been upon the various SUBJ
jects of science, education and religion.
Col John A. Danks on Monday last gave
us new theme. Gettysburg" was
his subject, in which he reviewed the
81 irring scene and events of that great
and decisive conflict between the Union
and the Rebel hosts in which he paPtic-
ipated. He graphically described the
grounds Of that great battle field, and
the different engagements during those
eventful days, of July l, and
3, 1863. His words were full of Ia
triotism and eloquence. Col Danks il
an impressive speaker, and his full,
clear voice, with his fine personal ap
pearance and energetic action, held his
audience in the closest attention. Pre-
vious to entering upon his lecture be
gratifed bis hearers by singing patri.
otic song-as he did also at the close
The Col. is justly renowned for his
powers in the song line, for a more
melodious, powerful and well trained
voice few men could possess. His lee
ture gave great satisfaction to his many
Butler friends and indeed was q great
success. We had not met the Col. fol
number of years and was pleased to
greet him again, and hope he may find
his way back here at no very distant
day.