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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-26

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NEW YORK STOCKS.
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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-27
A Case Of Fascination.

It was my fortune, says a writer in
London Nature, to witness u case of
"fascination between large striped
snake and medium-sized toad. When
first seen they were about fifteen inches
apart. The snake lay in coil with its
head thrust out toward its victim, and
moving slowly, its eyes glittering and
it's tongue darting necessarily. The
toad was standing on the very tips of
his claws, with its limbs rigidly drawn
up to their full length, its eyes fixed
upon its captor and fairly bursting from
their sockets, its mouth covered with
foam, and its whole body swaying to and
fro, and seeming just ready to pitch for
ward upon it's face. The movement of
the snake became more and more rapid,
and the agitation of the toad more in
tense, until the space between them was
reduced to some three or four inches,
when the snake opened wide it's mouth,
and the labored breathing of its victim
stopped short in low cultural moan.
At this point my own agitation became
SO great that, Selling heavy stone, l
finished the snake at one blow. The
instant the snake was struck the toad
fell backward as suddenly as though it.
self had been hit, and lay upon its back
for some minutes with no signs of life.
At length it gained its feet and began to
creep languidly away.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-27
The Tadsbury Bat Fight.

The entire Tadsbury family were as
sembled in their front room, when sud-
denly bat, decoyed from his hole in
the roof by the lamplight, flew into the
house. Mrs. Tadsbury's first impulse
was to faint dead away, but she changed
her mind and exclaimed, couch the
horrid thing. Oh, do put it out 1t
will bite somebody, and they say bats
are dreadful poisonous"
The next moment the family were in
arms, bent on the destruction of the un-
welcome visitor. Old man Tadsbury
grasped his walking-stick, his wife the
tongs, while Johnny armed himself with
the broom. The old man thrust fran
tically at the bat with his stick, Mrs.
Tadsbury shrieked and knocked the var
nish off the furniture with the tongs,
and Johnny sent the broom kissing
through the air with force enough to
kill steer, but the bat few high and
remained safe.
Johnny" suggested the old man,
"that Internal bat is sticking too close
to the ceiling, and you had better mount
chair and let him have whizzer, as he
circles around"
"All right, dad" replied Johnny,
placing a chair in the middle Of the
room. "You get ready to pounce on
him when I knock him down."
Johnny took up his position on the
chair, and the old man yelled
"Look out there he comes !"
The broom went through the air like
bullet; but the bat passed by I'M
harmed.
"Confound It'll Stop banging me
with those tongsr' shrieked Tadsbury,
as his wife caromed on his left ear while
trying to hit the bat over his shoulder.
Once more the bat came around, and
again the excited father yelled
Now, Johnny now's your chance. -
Whiz went the broom. The mark
was missed, and the blow descending
hit old man Tadsbury ON the head and
sent him crashing over the washstand
His wife, in wild attempt to get out of
the way, fell over the PROSTATE form OF
her husband, and jahbed the tongs
through the window panes. Johnny
kept his eyes on the bat and worked his
broom like a machine, and every tim e
one Of his parents attempted to regain
their feet the broom came along al d
turned their heels up to the ceiling.
About the time he thought he was gong
to get in solid lick the chair tilted AID
he Owed headforemost into mahogany
bureau and broke the glass, while the
bat flew quietly out of the window.
"I'm murdered" moaned the old man
as he erawled from under q rocking
chair.
"My backs out of joint" sobbed his
wife, and Johnny, fearing that he would
have to answer for the general destruc-
ton, skipped out of the house and sat ON
the back fence until the sticking plaster
had been distributed and the wreck
cleared away.-NesO Orleans Times.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-27

New Hampshire, with population Of
346, 1884, has 379 members in the lower
house, while Illinois, with population
of 8. 083, 325, has only 1853 members. The
question as to whether popular senti-
ment is better represented in New Hamp-
shire than Illinois is an open one. All
the newer States, it will be noticed, have
adopted system favoring membership
in the lower house sustaining the rela-
ton Of to 1 or to 1 to the Senate.
In New Hampshire the ratio is 80 to 1,
and in Pennsylvania and New York 4
to 1.
Outside of the United States the facts
as to legislative bodies are quite as in
teresting and suggestive. In Canada
the Parliament is composed of Senate
with 70 members, and House of Com
mons with 206 members. In Mexico
the Congress consists of Senate with
a membership of Sc and a House
of 227.
In the Parliament of Great Britain
there are 538 members in the House Of
Lords, and 659 in the Commons; in
Prussia, 302 members in the upper
house, and 434 in the lower in Hun
gary, TAG members of the House OF
Magnates, and AZ in the House of Rep
resentatives in Italy, 270 members OF
| the Senate, and sos members of the
Chamber Of Deputies; in Spain, the
Cortes has a membership Of 4OS; in
Portugal the upper house of the Cortes
| has 1913 members, and the lower 149
in Switzerland the Standerath, or upper
house, has A members, and the Ma.
tionalrath, or lower house, 1876 mem
bers.
In Sweden there are 1876 members in
the first chamber of the Diet, and 2O4 in
the second; in Norway % members OF
the Lagthing, and So members Of the
Oldesthing. In Greece there is one
chamber Of 1873 members, and in nearly
all the smaller German states the legis-
lative assemblies consist of one house.
In France the representation in the
Chamber of Deputies is based on the
population Of the ACCOMPLISHMENTS, every
reimbursement to have one representa-
tive, and an additional one fer each
100000 population or fraction thereof
when the population is in excess OF
100000. This gives to the Chamber Of
Deputies, or lower house, $50 mem
bers. The Senate consists of 800 mem.
bers, IS elected by the Senate for life
and the other 225 by electoral colleges
chosen Indirectly by the municipalities
and communes.
The Legislative Assembly Of the Ger.
man empire consists of Bundesrath O.
SO members appointed by the govern
ments of the individual states and {
Reichstag of 397 members elected by
the people.
In Brazil the Senate has member
ship of IS, and the House Of Congress
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-27
The Value of Autographs.

The price of autographs is as vari-
BILE as that Of pictures, and the collector
who regards them as valuable capital
may find himself, or his heirs may
find themselves grievously disappoin-
ted with the mean sums fetched by
some specimens, and, perhaps, equally
astonished at the figures given for
Others. At the recent sale of an
autograph collection in the hotel
Dronot, a letter of Napoleon /. to
Oudinot was obtained for IS fl, where
as a letter from the Comte de Cham
bord to M. Villemain was carried up
to the unexpected sum of 995f. This
may have been due in a great part to the
subject matter of the letter, as in it
the head of the house of Bourbon has
stated his views on the question of
the pope's temporal power. Letters
by his royal ancestors were knocked
down at comparatively insignificant
prices-a bundle of epistles by the
grand monarch himself for 300f.
Some by Nine. Maintenon were valued
at 90f, higher than those of her royal
partner, Charles VII. realized 6Sf.,
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-27
APHORISMS.

On eagle wings immortal scandals fly,
While virtuous actions are but born, and die.
Pope
EVERY wind is fair
When we are flying from misfortune.
-S0phocIeS.
THE saddest thing that can befall soul
Is when it loses faith in God and woman.
Alexander Smith.
But who shall 80 forecast the years,
And find in loss gain to match?
Or reach in time hand to catch
The far-off interest of tears
= Te'snysoas.
WANT of good sense is the worst OF
poverty.
IMPATIENCE dries the blo3d sooner
than age or sorrow.
A NATION cannot afford to do mean
thing. Charles Sumner.
JUSTICE is the bread Of nations. They
are always furnishing for it.-Chateou-
BRAND.
A MAN should never blush in confess
ing his errors, for he proves by his avow-
al that he is wiser to-day than yesterday.
-ROusSeGN.
One of the most efectual ways of
pleasing and of making ones self loved
Is to be cheerful JOY softens more hearts
than tears.-Ain1e. de Sartuy.
THERE is among men such intense af-
fectation that they often boast of defects
which they have not more willingly than
of qualities which they haye.-George
Sand.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-27
Luck.

The dispatches which Indicate the
escape with no loss Of officers and a
comparatively small loss of men, of
the 10Th British regiment of infantry
from the recent disaster at Majela
mountain, should be cherished by all
who believe in Luck" The 10th or
Bedfordshire regiment has been stead
lily out of what soldiers call 9" luck
throughout the century. That is to
say, it has never been slashed or shot
to pieces in any of England's numer-
Gus wars in way to entitle it to write
the name of one or another battle.
field, as it were. in blood upon its
regimental colors. These colOrS are
called maiden colors," therefore, as
certain assizes are called maiden as
Sizes when the judge receives a pair
of white gloves in token that there are
no criminal cases to be tried. Even
the Tooth Royal Canadian regiment
bears one name, Niagara, on its
banners, and, if we mistake not, out of
the 100 which, with the Rifle brigade,
the West Indian regiments and the
royal Malta make up the British line,
the only regiments which carry
ssmaiden colors" with the 10th are the
105th Madras and the 10th Bengal in
fantry, both regiments of recent crea-
ton. The 10th were in Canada during
Fenian scare of 1866 and marched to
the ''battle- field but their good OF
evil genius took them out of the right
road and they did not reach it in time
to drink delight" of it. The British
corps which bears the longest list OF
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-27
The Romance Of Exploration,

Few nOvellStS have SO exciting story
to tell as that which Col. Prejevalsky
brings home with him. He has been
travelling In regions which no European
foot had trod before him. While the
threatened storm between Russia and
China was growing on the frontier, he
was pushing his way among the unknown
territories of High Asia persistently and
undismayed. He has wandered through
forests that are bright with the plumage
of blue pheasants. He has explored the
Tibetan highlands, where the peaks are
said to rise 10000 feet above Mont
Blanc, and the very rivers flow at levels
higher than the SUBMITS Of all but the
loftiest of the Alps. Chinese potentates
have come within an ace of beheading
him. Tartar horsemen and Monaghan
brigands have fled before the unerring
aim of his rifle. Natives have spread
the legend that his eyes could pierce
fathoms deep into the earth and charm
out the precious stones which lay be-
meath and the best opinion that these
tribesmen ever held of him was that he
was a well-disposed wizard who flew
about at night. And, after all this adj
venture, his hope Of reaching the mys-
ferrous "star-spread sea" still stands
for the present baffied. From the SHOWS
of the Tibetan mountains flow two
of the greatest rivers of the earth,
the Yangtze and the Yellow river, the
main arteries of the Chinese plains
Even to the people who dwell upon
them their sources are but vaguely
known. They arrive upon the horizon
of exact knowledge as mighty rushing
waters break from the mountains. To
humber origins Prejevalsky has been
unable to trace them. When he struck
the Yellow river above Gomi he found
it already broad stream, clearing it's
way swiftly to the east through deep
ravine cut sharply out Of the rocky table
land. At frequent intervals as the ex-
plorer pushed along its banks with his
string of mules and camels he was
checked by cross ravines, in the bottom
of which tributaries rushed to the river.
"We would be marching over the un-
broken plain" he says, "when all of a
sudden fearful chasm would threaten
us with yawning throat and the passage
would cost untold fatigue to men and
beasts" He found, in short, that the
project of following up the Yellow river
was impossible. Nevertheless he still
believes that the source may be reached
some other time by starting further
west, and there is little reason to be-
lieve that Russia, which for two centu-
ries past has been distinguished for the
energy which she has devoted to the
work of geographical exploration, will not
long allow his services to remain unem-
ployed.-NeaU York Herald.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-27
Tricks Of the Trade.

A New York manufacturer Of tomato
catchup returned a report giving the value
of his manufactured product at $1S, 600,
and the value of his raw material as
Nothing. His explanation was as follows:
Every year in the canning season he
sends to all the wholesale houses which
make business of canning tomatoes
clean tubs, with the understanding that
the women who trim and peel shall
throw the skins and parings into these
tubs every day the tubs are removed,
the stuff in them ground up, fermented,
favored, and soldas tomato catchupto the
extent Of $4,000. Another singular
and decidedly pernicious business is the
manufacture Of cheap candies from white
earth, or terra alba, mixed with little
sugar AID glucose. The deputy who in
vestigated the confectionery business re-
ports that rs per cent. of some candies
is composed Of these substances, and
such candies, notably gumdrops, con-
tain still less sugar. The effects of white
earth upon the stomachs Of the unfortu-
nate children who buy these candies is
yet to be determined by future autop-
sizes.
What is called fine brand Of CASTLE
soap has been found to be composed
chiefly of this white earth and grease,
but the evil effects of such an imposture
are trifing compared to the results of
turning children's stomachs into NINA
ture pottery works. Among the new in
dustries which have sprung into exist
ence during the last few years is the
system of finishing in this city of foreign
goods imported in an unfinished condi-
ton. Foreign articles composed Of sew
eral parts are now largely finished in
this city, the parts calling for hand labor
being imported, while those calling for
machine work are made here. In this
way heavy duties are saved, although
the articles are sold as imported goods.
The manufacture Of spirituous and
adulterated articles is not confined to
New York alone, for we find by the
French journals that the question of
adulterated and manufactured wines is
greatly agitating the French wine mer-
chants, who have petitioned the Gov
eminent to intercede In their behalf by
such legal enactments as will efectually
prohibit and prevent the manufacture of
artificial wines, the petitioners asserting
that not one-third OF the wine used III
Paris is made Of grapes. The many
Americans who turn up their noses at
the juice of our own grapes will natural
ly wonder VIII It the spurious French
wines are made Of The petition of the
French wine merchants says that there
are number of large factories near
Paris in which wines are made from rot
ten apples, damaged dried fruits of all
kinds, beets and spoiled molasses. But
there are not enough of these materials
to make as much wine as is
required by foreign trade. Turnip
Juice has been worked over into wine,
and American cider is the basis of mill
ions of bottles of champagne, br1t good
apples and turnips are too costly to be
wasted on cheap wines, such as most
Americans buy.-Nea0 York paper.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-27
First Things in American Iron.

Iron was first made in America in
1920, at point on Falling creek,
branch Of the James river, in Virginia.
The first iron manufactured west of
the Allegheny mountains was made in
Fayette county, Pa, in 1870.
The first rolling mill west of the AL
legheny mountains was located on Cheat
river, in what is now West Virginia.
The date of its erection is unknown.
The first rolling mill in Pittsburgh
was built by Christopher Cowan, an En-
glishman, in 1912. It had no pudding
furnaces nor was it intended to roll bar
ron.
The first rolling mill erected west of
the Alleghenies to puddle iron and roll
bars was built in 1916 and 1917, at
place called Middletown, better known
as Plumsock, in Fayette county, Pa.
Pig-iron, manufactured with bitumln-
GUS coke, is claimed to have first been
made as regular product in the United
States by F. Fl. Oliphant, at Uniontown,
Fayette county, Pa, in 1886.
Knocked bituminous coal was first
used in blast-furnace about the year
1843, in the Shenango valley, Pa.
The first use of Lake Superior IRON
ore in blast-furnace was in 1858, by
David and John Agnew, at Sharpsville,
Mercer county, Pa.
Cast-steel was made in the American
colonies at an earl y day. In 1906 there
were two steel-furnaces in Pennsylvania,
producing $50 tons of steel annually.
Bessemer steel was first made in the
United States at Wyandotte, Mich, in
the autumn of 1864.
The first Bessemer steel rails rolled in
this country were rolled at the North
Chicago rolling mill on the oath of May,
1865, from hammered blooms made at
the Wyandotte rolling mill from ingots
of steel made at the experimental steel
works at Wyandotte.
The first iron rails of any kind made
in this country we're cast by the Lehigh
Navigation Company, at their foundry
in the upper end of Mauch Chunk, Pa,
in 1926. A few flat rails were rolled
prior to 1842, but such rails were only
bar iron. The manufacture of heavy
wrought rails was commenced at the Mt.
Savage rolling mill, in Allegheny county,
Md, in 1874.
The first iron vessel built in the
United States was launched at Pitts
burgh in 1889. 1t was named the Val
ley Forge. For general navigation pur-
poses it was completely successful.
Other iron vessels were built at Pitts
burgh within the next decade, among
them an iron schooner for ocean service,
and an iron steamer, the Michigan, for
service on the lake-both built for the
Government about 1912. The latter is
still doing Government service on the
lakes.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-27
Wanted tt Just Right.

Chow much will this cost in your
paper" asked a qniet-looking man, as
he handed in the following advertise
ment at the counting-room
Smith-Busted trace, in this city,
Friday, just after dinner, Mary Smith,
wife of the undersigned, and daughter
of old Sim Pratt, the leading blacksmith
of Denver. Col. The corpse was highly
respected by the high-tonedest families,
but death got the drop ON her, and she
took the up-bucket with perfect conf
dence that she would have a square show
the other side of the divide. The plant
transpires this afternoon at her boarding
house on Willow street. Come one,
come all:
dearest Mary, thou has left u.s.
For you on earth there wasn't room;
But It's heaven that has bereft Us,
And snatehed darling up the fume.
Denver papers please copy and send
bill, or draw at sight.
"By her late husband, P. SMITH"
81 don't believe you want it in just
that way, do your" asked the clerk rub
bling his chin obviously.
"Why not, stranger?" asked the
quiet man.
cit don't read quite right, does it -
asked the clerk.
"Was you acquainted with the corpse,
stranger? demanded the quiet man.
"Was you aware Of the lamented while
she was bustling around in society down
at that boarding-house?"
GO don't know that I ever met her, u
responded the clerk.
$50 reckoned, ledge. You wasn't
up to the deceased when she was in the
living business. Now, Jedgc, the de-
ceased wrote that Grafton herself afore
she died, and I want it in. Do you hook
on, partner ?"
"But it isn't our style of notice." OBJ
iected the clerk.
"Nor mine, neither" acquiesced the
quiet man. "i was for having picture
of her and lot more talk. but she said
she wanted it quiet and modest, so she
whooped that up. Say, stranger, is it 60
ing into your valuable space without
any dificulty?"
II don't know" said the clerk, dole
fully.
"I know, partner. This celebration
comes off tomorrow afternoon, and
that's going in in the morning, if it goes
in out of cannon. I got grief enough
on my hands now, stranger, without
erecting fort on the sidewalk, but, il
you want war, I got the implements
right in the back part Of these mourn
ing clothes. What dye think, ledge %
"Does it make any difference where
it goes % asked the clerk.
At want it in the paper" said the
mourner, "and it's going in if it takes a
spile-driver. Think you twig my racket,
Strangely"
"Al right, +" replied the clerk. "Tn
put it in the Salad among other
mournful remarks -Four dollars, please. u
"That's business" and the quiet man
paid the money. eff you amt busy
come around tomorrow. I'm going to
give the old woman a good send-of, and
if that gospeller don't work up pretty
good programme before he gets to the
doxology, his folks will think he's been
doing considerable business with saw
mill. She was q good one, ledge, and
she was pious from the back of her neck
to the bunion on her heel; you can tell
that from the notice :" and the mourn
ing widower wiped his eyes on the sly,
and, later In the day, was fined $40 fol-
thrashing the undertaken who had put
silver handles on the casket, instead Of
gold.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-27

battle names emblaZoned on its colors
is the Rife brigade, which carries "a,
including Corunna, Badajos, Vittoria,
Toulouse, Waterloo, Alma, mixer
mann. and Lucknow, and next comes
the Goth, or Kings royal rifles, with
%. The 1st, or royal Scots regiment,
carries 20, the 23d royal Welsh
Fusileers and the 10th Somersetshire
regiment carry 49, each, while the
6 Fighting SSth," or Connaught ran
gers, the 3Sth, OR Staffordshire regi-
ment, and the 10th, the Sherwood
FOresterS, l6 each.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-27
How a Lawsuit Was Won.

A Galveston man met friend from
the country on the street.
"How do you come on?" exclaimed
the former. "When last heard of you
you had lawsuit on hand with Tom
Smith about fine horse. How did that
end ?"
"I won it. I completely got away
with Tom. You see the Justice was the
most honest man in the world, so I wrote
him note asking him to accept the in
closed SIS bill"
81 should think the Judge would have
ruled against you for trying to bride
him."
$50 he would if I had not been care
full to sign Tom Smiths name instead Of
my own"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-27
A Hint to BrainwOrkers.

A wrinkle for brainworkers-espe.
cially for those who are suddenly called
upon for an extra amount of work.
Too generally they fly to tea and coffee,
powerful auxiliaries, undoubtedly, but
they exact too heavy payment for
their services. Brillat-Savarin recon-
mends cup of chocolate, with the
smallest piece of amber powdered and
added, as one would sugar, though not
as substitute for sugar. He declares
this mixture enables him to get
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-27

and Francis II, only 48f. Some letters
Of the Prince de Condo fetched 410f.;
but exactly the same sum was reached
by the actress, Rachel. A Meyerbeer
and Bossuet sold for 70f.; Sainte
Beuve for AZ, Jules Janin for 40, and
a Tallyrand for Off. Doubtless the
value in each case was condition to a
great degree Oh the contents and COM
pass of the letters. BY far the largest
amount was obtained for 90 letters by
Prince Won Metternich, the great
Austrian diplomatist, which were
sold for 5,000f. The whole collection,
containing 273 letters, realized nearly
10000.