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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-01
How to Amuse the Little Ones.

Here Is one way. For few moments
this morning my ingenuity was put to
the test, as dear child Of six summers
stood before me, saying, "Won't you
help me on with my sacque I am going
to the barn now?" She is herfather's al
most-constant companion on the farm.
But it was raining hard and would be
too damp for her at the barn. I said,
t.Dont go out now, darling; it rains.
Play here with your things, and get
dinner for the dollies." No; she dill
not wish to do that. I then said, "Don't
you want to have paste, and paste pictures
in q book 2" This proposal pleased her
and the paste was made. From among
her own playthings she found book and
pictures. I showed how to cut them
and paste them nicely, and then for two
hours or more she sat by the table work
ing at her book and pictures. The book
she pasted them In was only bright
colored almanac, and the pictures were
cut from old advertisements Of different
things. Almost any mother could find
as much to amuse her child. Dear
mothers. don't say too often to the little
ones when they ask for something to do,
cob! go away and play. I cannot
bother with you; I want to work" Re-
member, when you spend some
Of your precious moments in start
ing something that will amuse your
child for hours. it is noble work.
Make their childhood happy if you can.
Answer their questions, even if it takes
time and thought. AS this little one
was working this morning, she often
asked me to look at it and see If it was
all right. I did so, and I am happier
tonight because L did it. s;At noon the
clouds broke away and I helped her with
sacque and rubbers, and away she went
to have good time with papa. "Aant
Birdie"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-01
Sinecures at Washington.

Before this house (the one occupied
by Mr.. Seward when he was attacked
by Payne), for several years afterward,
sentry paced night and day, even
when Mr.. Seward had moved away and
gone out of Office. The same building
was once used as clubhouse, and
from it Key had just issued when he
was shot by Sickles. This lonely sentry,
still at his post long after he had been
forgotten at the War Department, and
allowed to remain, 1 suppose, because
no one thought it was his duty to re-
ieve him, reminds me of several similar
incidents that are relatedin Washington.
The great falls of the Potomac are
about sixteen miles above Washington,
and during the war there was station
for the collection of provisions for the
army on the bank of the canal near
these grand cataracts. The road be-
tween Washington and Great Falls was
several times raided by the Confederates,
and a block-house was erected by the
Federals at point three or four miles
above Georgetown to prevent parties of
rebels from passing up and down the
road. At the close of the war the de-
lenses about the capital were one after
another deserted, but nobody seems to
have remembered the corporal's guard
stationed out there on the Aqueduct
road, and they remained on duty for a
year or two. After they were relieved
the block-house was set on fire by
tramps or boys, and only a few black
ened posts now mark its site. A still
more remarkable case was that discov-
cred by Gen. B. F. Butler about ten
years ago. He was nosing around
among the appropriations one day, when
he discovered an officer in the Capitol
whose duty he did not understand. He
was watching crypt An investigation
showed that many years agoit was pro-
posed to deposit the bones of Gen.
George Washington beneath the Capitol,
and a crypt was prepared for that pur-
pose. When it was completed, pub
lie officer was appointed whose duty it
was to watch this crypt and prevent its
Dissertation, and there he had been ever
since, growing gray in the service, and,
while Congress had appropriated money
to pay his salary year after year, nobody
had thought it worth while to inquire
how he earned it, Washington Cor
Providence Press. cei
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-01
Used to Suck EN-

A young college student was visit
ing his grandmother, and at the break
fast table ne took an egg. and holding
it up, asked her if she. knew the scien-
t..fic way of obtaining the contents
without breaking the shell.
She replied that she did not.
"Well," s aid he, "you take the
spheroidal body in your sinister hand,
and with convenient diminutive
pointed instrument, held in the dexter
hand, puncture the apex. Then in
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-01

morning to DR.. Spenser:. "Was up
with him half the night. Said he was
poisoned from melon in your patch.
Same symptoms as your colored pa
tients."
DIR. Spenser winked. $50 he was in
that party, was he? Well, the melons
were not really poisoned, though ]
won't say what I did to them" =
Even Frank Harvard does not care for
watermelons any longer. Youths Com
p0niOn, go RI eAtt&
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-01

Bring pair of scales" The scales
were brought. "Now put in all the
petitions and letters in favor of one
man and see how much they weigh.
and then weigh the other fellows
pile It was found that one bundle
was three quarters of pound heav-
Ter than the other. "Make out an
appointment at once for the man who
has the heaviest papers," said Mr..
Lincoln, and it was done.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-01
CuriOsities of Life Insurance.

Life insurance statisticians have fur
nished some curious figures on which the
issue of new policies is based. Among
the curious tables furnished, is one show
ing the comparative mortality Of blacks
and whites. Taking 1000 persons as
the basis for calculation, it has been
found that Of that number in New En-
gland the death-rate was "a blacks to &c
whites. In the Middle States the rate
was for blacks, 81 for whites, 20. In
the Northwest the rate was 48 blacks
to 10 whites. In the South, the ratio
was "a blacks to 10 whites. ,Conversine
on this subject with an officer Of prom
inent life insurance company, q reporter
asked whether discrimination against the
colored race was practiced by insurance
companies. 14 M
% &c Nearly all life insurance companies
refuse to insure colored people. was the
reply. "Those who do insure them take
them for short-term endowments. Elk
perience has shown that the colored peo-
pie are, proportionately considered, the
shortest-ived people in this country OF
any other. Further, it has been proved
that. the pure negroes chances for long
life are better than those who are an adj
mixture of black and white. $50
"What disease is found to be most
prevalent among them p ~. ~.
Consumption is the bane of the col
ored population. It is especially the
bane Of those of mixed blood" f
"What race do you find the longest
lived 2" ..sa aa5 r,ss "a. grif
$50 far as race types are concerned,
I should Judge that the Hebrews have
probably shown the greatest longevity. -
edo you find that the rich or the
poor take out the most insurance ?"
SIN the aggregate, there are more of
those who are not rich who get insured.
But the rich take out more insurance in
proportion to their numbers"
(Which kind keeps up the life insur-
ance longest ?"
"The rich. Fewer of them allow
their policies to lapse. But of late years,
the loss to the insured by lapsed policies
has been greatly diminished by the prev
alence of non-forfeiture policies. There
is no trouble now for man to get In
surance for whatever money he can
afford to pay. There is much less loss
to poor policy holders than formerly
from lapsed policies. The average value
of the policies issued in this country is
only So, 2O0."
"What nationality insures the most p
considering the population by place
of nativity, the natives Of this country
insure more largely than any other.
Considered as race type, the Hebrews
will be found in the greatest proportion
among the insured. "-Ne,D York San.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-01

MY friends, we can't all be Washing
tons, but we kin all be patriots and be-
have ourselves in human and Christ
ian manner. When we see brother
goin' down hill to ruin let us not give
MIN push, but let us seize rite hold Of
his coat tails and draw him back to mo-
rality.-A. Ward.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-01

the same manner make an orifice in
the base, place either extremity to
your labials, and endeaver to draw in
YOUR breath; vacuum is created,
and the contents of the egg are dis
charged into your mouth.
"La!'' said the old lady, g when /
was a girl we used to make q pin-hOle
in each end and suck en-.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-01
How to Treat a Frightened Horse.
A man who has had much experienc,

in managing horses, says: "When-
ever nevous horsemen notice their horse
directing his ear to any point whatever,
or indicating the slightest disposition to
become afraid, let them, instead Of pull
ing the reins to bring the horse toward
the object causing its nervousness, pull
upon the other side. This will instant
" divert the attention of the horse
from the object which is exciting his
suspicion, and in ninety-nine cases out
of 100 the horse will pay no mere atten-
ton to the object. from which he will fly
away if forcibly driven to it by pulling
on the wrong rein. The practice most
persons have of forcing horse up to
the object frightening is dangerous and
useless - -
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-01
The DEVILS Bridge.

It is an enchanting drive to the baths
of Lucca. The white road, dazzling
and dusty, first runs across the fowery
plain to the foot of the hills, and then
follows the Serchic far. into their re-
cesses. Picturesque villages, with wide
ly overhanging roofs and pergolas of
vines bowed with their purple grape
clusters cling to the side of the hills.
Roses, especially our common China
roses, are formed into hedges amid
which a shrine with q picture or an
image Of saint peeps out here and
there. The corn fields are red with
gladiolus and peoples or blue with corn
flowers. High above the olives, tall
Expresses shoot up into the sky. At
length, in the narrowest part of the val
ley, we come upon the old bridge, the
Ponte della Mandelena, built by Cas-
truccio more than 500 years ago, with
one of the highest and widest arches in
Italy, raised even far higher than the
roofs Of the neighboring houses to be
out of the way of the sudden floods
which characterize the river. So high
it is that the peasants believe that it is
impossible that it can have been built by
human hands, and it is often known by
the name Of Ponte del Diavolo. When
the builder was in despair, they say, the
devil came by night to help him, but de-
manded the first passenger across the
bridge as his reward. In the morning
the bridge was finished, but the man
outwitted the fiend by making a dog
cross the bridge first. So furious was
the devil at his disappointment. that he
seized the animal and dashed it with such
force upon the ground that it went
through the center arch, and was carried
away by the food, " in proof Of which, .
says, the contadini, "the hole which the
dog fell thrungh might be seen under
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-01

"WoMEN ?" said an expert "Wen,
some Of them are worse than others, but
none are better"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-01

Our dime or 10-cent piece was first
coined in the year 1876.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-01

fear of death before him, he knew pretty
well what to do.
He flew to DIR. Sponsors house, and
fortunately found that gentleman up.
"Come on, doctor, come on /" he
shouted. "Don't stop to put on your
coat, si-. You amt got time fur it !"
What's the matter?" asked the
doctor. 10
"Dey's all pr'isoned. You done it, and
eff dey dies, you'll be de murderer"
The doctor smiled grimly.
$50 they've been at my melons, have
they? Well, I put mp a warning, and if
/! they chose to steal and risk it, that's not
my business" -.
He smiled still more viciously when
he reached tine house, and saw the
grooming, writhing mass Of humanity
within it. af1
His remedies, whatever they were,
were prompt and vigorous, and didn't
leave much of the stolen melon for d.
gestion. By the time he got through
with them, they were among the limpest
mortals that ever found forbidden fruit
bitter on the palate.
! AS for Joe, he was SO i'll that he just
asked to be let alone. He didn't seem
to care if he lived or died.
! It was daylight before the people
staggered off to their own homes, half
afraid that the poison was not destroyed,
and that it would start up and destroy
them yet. gocs a = - iIoraa
DR.. Spenser forebore to say word Of
reproach. as he watched the crowd tot
tering of, saying, "Lord hab MASSEY on
us. Jist let us git out OBJ dis prickly
brier.''
"Had an awful time with young Hav-
ard" said a brother physician that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-18
CONGRESS md EEFENDfNG

"The Money Power" ought to reward speaker
Randall i1chly. Under his guidance the Fund
ing bill has taken such shape that the holders
Of five and six per cent bonds may probably
count with confidence upon a continuation OF
the high late of interest for at least year
longer, unless an extra session should be held.
Moreover, il tue bill should pass, it would
put into the hands of few capitalists vast
and dangerous power, which would not be
knowingly intrusted, even by this Congress, to
any body of men.
Let it be supposed that the bill has passed.
At once it becomes extremely important to the
holders of the old bOEds TO defeat the sale of
tie three per cents. IL they can do this, they
ean for at least one year the or 3 pei cent
difference between the present and the pro-
posed rate, on over $500, 100000 OF bonds.
For the bill leaves the Secretary discretion !;
if he cannot sell three per cents, he can sell
nothing. Members of Congress fancy, in their
ignorance, that capitalists will he poweIless to
prevent the sale of the new bonds. But they
forget that their own bill has placed in the
hands of capitalists most powerful engine for
its defeat. Money can be borrowed cheaply
only when money IS plenty. Stringency IN the
money market will surely cause the price Of
tOnds t. decline, and prevent new purchases
But the Funding bill makes it worth about
$4,000, 900 to the holders of the old bonds to
cause stringency IN the money market, and at
the same time gives them ample power to do so
easily, surely. and with large inciden al profit.
A Jew bankers and spectators get together
and mature theii plans. They first sell o few
millions of four per cent bonds, now held by the
thn,, t,I< xtnt tho, vt,
money to deposit for the retirement of ten or
twenty millions of circulation. Thereby tho
money is locked up until the notes come in
gradually for redemption. At once tneie is a
scarcity of money. Either one OF halt dozen
large operators could produce it alone, aided by
the nducement which this bill gives the banks
to surrender their circulation. Necessarily, the
bonds decline. Having sold, let us say
$40, 100000 of bonds at 113, the combination
can clear profit of 81 900, 600 by buying back
the same bonds when tine price has fallen TO the
level of year ago. Meanwhile sales OF three
per cents have been defeated. The public
credit has been rudely shaken. Stocks have
dropped also, and the great spectators have
cleared few millions mole by operating for
the tall which their own contraction of currency
has caused Finally. when it suits the com
bnation. bonds are bought in at low rates, new
circulation is applied for and issued, and the
currency is restored to its present condition.
But refunding has been defeated for a year at
least. The holders of i've and six per cent
bonds have gained $1SOO0,000 in one year's
interest. And tho combination of SPECTATORS
and bankers has realized many millions yaore
by manipulation OF the market. ALI this is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-18
GENERAL NOTES.

Tie Textile ColoriSt, which has just closed
Its second volume Is in several respects
UNIQUE Publication. AS its name inicates it
Is devoted to dyelug and kindred branches,
and its holiday nlmber gives collection Of
practical reeipes, each OF which ia accompanied by
sample OF wool other material actually dyed by the
method described. Many OF the advertisements
ufaciurcrs OF colOring materials also similarly
cOmpaucd Thcse brilliant specimens Of color GER
talnly give The C0Ors bright holiday appearance aud
make the uulnbvr VerS ATTRACTIVE. D..
A golden Wedding was celebrated in San
Frpncsco fortnight with the aged pair beneath
the marriage bell, and dive children and many grand
children to greet them. One OF the children was
sprltuaist and nspratonal speaker. She offered fer
vent prayer this happy occasion. and with her eyes
closed gllded forward aud clnspng the dear hands
OF father and mother. addressed them the name oi
their departed friends. speaking especially for little
Stella Johnny Hattie and Cora the dead
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-18
RESUMLNG 4 GOOD WORK.

Distrirt-Attorney Rollins resumes the war
begun by his predecessor on the lottery ana
policy men with promptitude. and, what Is OF
more importance employs practical means.
II has always been difficult to arrest, indlct
or convict any of the rascals who conduct
this business. Its profits are so enormous for
The small capital invested and the pecuniary
risk involved, that the projectors can employ
the best legal talent to instruct them how TO
evade the law hire men of established
reputation 10 give fraudulent enterprises
the material aid of their indorse-
ment; and pay regular tribute for police
and other official neglect to prosecute them
when public sentiment cOmpels spasmodc ne
ton. District Attorney Rollins proposes to
begin by prosecuting all persons, owners or
opents renting premises for the use of lottery
dealers. The penalty is Il prohbltory one,
and the offence is susceptible oil proof. After
depriving them of the places TO deal IN, the
D,strct-Attorney should next proceed against
the methods used by the lottery managers to
make known their business. These are chiefly
the moor newspapers that are willing to ylo-
late the law for the palry subsidy of an adj
vertisenicnt Several of these papers are under
indictment. The conviction OF one or two OF
their publishers and as many managers OF lot
terry companies would go far toward justify
ing Mr.. RoIlinS's action and III advancing the
work OF eradiclting these pests.
There is not likely to be amy action taken
by the Post Office Department at Washington.
Mr.. Maynard is understood to have sid lately
that he should do something concerning the
use of the mails Ivy the lottery company
which has a monopoly of the null service, IA
soon az MI Ray, Solicitor OF the Department.
was sufficiently recovered from illness to
draw the necessary order. OF COuise the lot
tely men would picler to have the Depart
mcnt remain in a cOmatose condition, bui is
il TO the public interest that they should he
permitted to use the multitude of Post 0flice
agent for carrying Oh their Infamous traffic I
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-18
TuLENT'EEH COLT.


1t is a comfort 10 know that there is one
prominent Democrat in the country VINO not
only has convictions and the courage Of his
convictions; but has also tho revercnt regard foI
truth ard the seli-sacriticIng candOr which
made the Father Of his Country an example for
its YOUTH and is symbOlized for all time in the
ruined cherry-trec with the hatche, at its root
AT time when the Democratic patty, pulling
itseli painfully together with bad headache
and q purple eye, is beating the air with the
conundrum, "Who did it 2'-whcn the high
priests are laying off the sins of the Campaign
upon reluctant and baulky goats who stand still
and Will not move wilderness ward when some
are laying il to Kelly, some to Tiden, some to
BaInum, and some TO Hancock-Mr. Henry
Watters0n, OF Kentucky, comes calmly fol- ward
to Chicago interviewer and says, 9" cannot
"tell lie. did it with my little taliil-ior
"ievenue only plank in the platform"
1t is not probable that Mr.. Wattcrson sought
Chicago for purposes of confession. But being
there on other business, or mayhap for pleasure,
the climatic influences and atmospheric condi-
lions which have operated to saturate the citi-
zens of that town with sincerity as rare as il il
beautiful, and to establish the reputation OF the
place for exceptional veraeity, working upon a
disposition naturally frank and confidipg. nm
doubleday led him TO give the whole thing
away" Said the reporter to Mr. Watterson,
with that wonderful directness and simplicitv
with which the really earnest interviewer rips
off the bandage from q recent hunt to see how
deep the wound is That plank of tariff for
"revenue- only in the Democratic platform il
"what defeated the Democrats in tho last Presi
"dential campaign, NJ. Wattcrson, aud they
say you are responsible Tor it," A less candid
man, or one less courageous, might have been
tempted by The suddenness of the question. tho
largcness OF its scope, and the momentous con-
sequences ii involved, TO pyevaricate. Without
denying the authorship of the plank in question
he might have laid the defeat to Kelly, Tiden.
Hancock, or VIM. Ii. English to the. Grcenbacs
alliance, the abuse OF Garfield, OIL the Morey
letter. But he didn't. He answered boldly and
promptly: Yes, sir, wrote that plank. and
"am willing to stand the responsibility for do
"ing So"
This is magnanimOus and humane. The
Office OF scapcgOat-the only one within the gift
OF the Democratic party-has been going beg
eing fol two months Many selections have
been made. and in every case there has been
manifested disposition cruelty to overload
mir. WattersOn's confession brings relief to the
entire fock-to the goats that protest againrt
the weight OF the load, and those that object to
playing goat at all. To the assertion that his