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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-11
Chinese Pirates.

The towns contain q due amount OF
tame cheats, but the bold, hectoring
highwayman, the truculent sea-robber,
must be sought elsewhere. All along
the Blue and Yellow River are found re-
tail buccaneers, who hawk at a trifing
quarry, and fasten on slender profits.
These poor rogues do not aspire to a
ship of their own; they come padding
out of muddy creeks in the smallest of
sampsns, alarmed, il-clad, but plenti-
fully smeared with fish-oil. II con-
fronted, they fly; if grappled by the crews
Of the fourth-class junks, which they
select as prizes, they slip like SO many
cells through the hands that grasp them,
and their swimming amend for their lax
courage. Seldom any very sinister re-
suits follow one Of these attacks. If the
fresh-water pirates prove victorious they
are mild conquerors, and only too eager
to be on shore again with their booty Of
rice and corn, stray garments, odd frag-
ments of chain, bits of copper and brass
hastily ripped from the poop and cabins,
and perhaps the glorious trophy of few
rafting strings of cash. The dollars
and silver bars are generally too well
hidden to be detected by such hurried
searchers; food rather than fortune, is
the object of the foray; and, except in
rare cases OF remarkable temptation, no
life is attempted and no torture resorted
to. With these amphibious, petty-lar-
ceny rogues the magistrates deal mildly
according to the traditions Of Chinese
Justice. Three hundred strokes Of the
bamboo may be endured by the human
frame. Four sleepless weeks in the
"cangue, or bamboo pillory, may fail
to madden stolid, unimaginable coolie.
A few minor tortues need only be added
to these two first named infections, and
the culprit is said to have been most ten
derby dealt with. Pilferers in fair, or
the streets of town, are considered as
still more venial offenders. A vigorous
bastinado and week Of the pillory is
the laws reward in such trivial cases.
Petty raising is sin Of the deepest dye;
and the malicious piercing Of q neigh
boris dixie, to let in devastating flood,
is punished with extreme rigor. Murde,
and reasonable practices, wholesale pir-
acy, and armed brigandage, all cry aloud
for death, more or less slow and painful
and parricide evokes the sternest chas-
tisement of the Chinese, as it once did Of
the Roman law.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-11
Sharp Roulette and Poker Players.

Tom Ochiltree tells q story Of q jew
out west, who bought all The privileges
at country fair, and among others That
of having roulette table. He had an
ingenious mechanism worked by a wre
stirrup beneath the table, with which he
could with his foot regulate the re.
volving wheel SO as to make the ball
drop in black or red, just as 1t suited his
advantage. He had SO much other bus
mess that he had to leave brother
1sraelite in charge Of the wheel. As
luck would have it, there came along a
reckless man just then, who put down
about 5000 upon the red, and won. The
Jew came running up in great excite
ment, exclaiming with AN oath to his en-
ploye: 30,
s'Don't hit me! Don't hit mel" said
the man behind the table. ''You must
excuse me, Isaac. my foot was asleep"
Another of Ochiltrees stories. that OF
the poker player with the patent vest, is
worth telling. According to Tom, this
man cleaned out Texas, including Tom
himself and the late Col. Jim Major,
well known in Missouri. He beat every
crack poker player in the country, and
the natives were perplexed. Finally he
went away, and Tom began to think over
his tricks. He made up his mind that
the man had an improved method, ana
getting on his track, followed him up
and won his confidence. Then the poker
player confessed that he wore patent
vest, lined with delicate Mechanism and
worked by wires leading to the toes;
that by dropping q poor card INTO bis
sleeve he could work up one to suit the
others that he had from the pasteboafd
arsenal he had next to his shirt.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-11
The Weapons of the World.

line earth, the lake ana the streams
have disgorged the swallowed specimens;
the sepulchre and the temple have given
back their offerings; the buried city has
unclutched its relics; the battlefield has
rendered up its vestiges. And from all
these subterranean pillagings the muse
ums have grown full. There is the
Greek sword, so curt that it is little
more than large knife, pre-erninently
fit for scrambling, hacking, strenuous
stabbing in unfinching close quarters.
There is the Roman sword, of differing
lengths almost as various, indeed, as
the countries it conquered. There is
the Gallo sword, of such soft, plant
metal that its users had to stop IN fight,
after each hard blow, in order to
straighten it under their feet, thereby
enabling the enemy to knock them over
uncontestedly. There are the hooked
scimitars of the Turks, with an inside
edge, and the carved Arab yataghans.
with the edge outside. There is the
handled sword of the Crusader,
with which be prayed and slew alter
nately. There is the weapon whose
pommel served for seal, like that of
Charlemagne, who said, when he used it
to put his stamp on treaties, 81 sign
them with this end, and with the other
I will take care that they are kept.
There are Dutch, Russian, Portuguese,
and Moorish swords, each one of them
with big type or detail proper to itself.
There are the glaives of red-clothed
headsmen Of the Middle Ages; there are
the Malay krisses, and the notched
blades of Zanzibar, and old sabers (the
parents Of our contemporaneous tribe)
from India, Armenia and Khorassan
There is the espada of the Spanish
matador, the Schiavona of Venice, the
Albanian cutlass, the Kabyle fisse, the
Turkish kandjar, the court sword Of a
century ago, the claymore Of Scotland.
There are all the incalculable assort-
ments of German, Spanish and italian
swords.
All these and thousand others are to
be found in the collections, with their
capricious varyings of blade and handle,
Of pommel, spindle and hilt, of inlaying
and engraving, of complicated basket
guards, Of every sort of ornament and
complement and supplement that can be
added to an implement. Damaskeening,
particularly (Which is the incusting Of
gold and silver into iron and steel, and
which, though said by Herodotus to
have been invented by Glaucus of Chic.
and though cultivated by the Romans,
was not seriously practiced in modern
Europe till the fifteenth century, gives
a remarkable beauty and artistic value
to many swords; it is perhaps, indeed,
the most distinctive and the most grace
full of all the adornments lavished upon
them. And the scabbards! Why, they
fopm special race: if they were not, by
the essence and condition of their being,
mere adjunct to something else, they
would occupy place of their own in the
world. Their sorts and shapes are so
many that they are beyond arithmetic.
-Blackwood.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-11
Brain Work and Bad Habits.
Mrs. Hickman in the Cleveland, CO., Leader

Mrs. Hickman, in the Cleveland, CO., LEADER
'Bad habits, impure air, unhealthful
food, neglect Of exercise, the use of to-
bacco and whiskey, have killed thous-
ands of students, where hard study has
killed one. More people die, I think,
for want of sufficient FRAMEWORK than
from too much Of it. When schoolgirls
die from tight corsets, heavy skirts heat
ing chignons and other unnatural infic-
tions, it is very kind in gentlemen to
say, Killed by hard study but women
know better. Some years since I had
hired girl who suffered almost constantly
from headache, but she wore continually
a heavy chignon, supported by wire
pins in her hair. Her headache was not
caused by hard study. This same girl
often spent forty minutes at night put
ting up her hair, and as many minutes
in the morning taking it down again.
But the worst Of it all was that after all
her care she was sick, and consequently
ugly. Young ladies can't safely study
during school hours, and then spend the
hours allotted to exercise and recreation
in the exhausting labor of altering old
dresses into the latest style, or even in
embroidery or stitching ruffies. They
can scarcely afford an hour a day for
the crimping and frizzing of their hair.
It is rather q curious study to notice
how women, in all times and countries,
have been bent ON changing themselves
from what God made them. In some
countries they blacken their teeth and
bandage their feet; in others they fatten
their heads and paint the faces; while in
others they powder the face, friz the
hair, and variously deform the form
divine. Now, if all this were necessary
to make woman beautiful, it would be
labor and care we'll spent, for every wo-
man should make herself attractive, if
possible. But is it not true that the
highest peauty, as well as art, is to be
natural? Were not our grandmothers
in their youth, though in plain attire,
admired and loved quite as sincerely as
the present generation of girls are?
Good health, good disposition and IN
telligence are the best beautifers. I
have sometimes thought collection Of
the various styles Of chignons, stays,
hoopskirts and other denominations Of
woman's apparel would make valuable.
and instructive addition to some Of our
museums"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-11
Inherited Antiquities.

Cows hate dogs from their earliest
calf-hood upwards. use to doubt once
upon time whether the hatred was not
Of artificial origin, and wholly induced
by the inveterate human habit Of egging
on every dog to worry every other ami
mol that comes in its way But tried
mild experiment one day by putting a
half-grown. city bred puppy into small
enclosure with some unhitherto unwor-
ryed calves, and they ali turned to make
common Roadway against the intruder
with the same striking unanimity as the
most ancient and experienced COWS.
Hence, I am inclined to suspect that the
antipathy does not actually result from
vaguely inherited instinct, derived
from the days when the ancestor of our
kline was wild urus, and the ancestor
of our dogs wolf, on the wild, forest
clad plains of Central Europe. When O
COW puts up its tail on the sight of dog
entering its paddock at the present day,
it has, probably, some dim, instructive
consciousness that it stands in the pres
ence of dangerous, hereditary foe; and
as the wolves could only seize with safe
ty single isolated urus, so the COWS
usually make common cause against the
intruding dog, turning their heads in one
direction with very unwonted unanimity
till his tail finally disappears under the
opposite gate.
Such inherited antipathies seem COM
mon and natural enough. Every species
knows and breads the ordinary enemies
of its race. Mice scamper away from
the very smell of cat. Young chickens
run to the shelter Of their mothers
wings when the shadow of hawk passes
over their heads. Mr.. Darwin put a
small snake into paper bag, which he
gave to the monkeys at the Zoo; and one
monkey after another opened the bag,
looked in upon the deadly foe of the
quadrumaneous kind, and promptly
dropped the whole package with every
gesture of horror and dismay. Even
man himsef-though his instincts have
all weakened so greatly with the growth
Of his more plastic intelligence, adapted
to wider and more modified set of ex-
terna circumstances seems to retain
vague and original terror Of the serpen-
tine form.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-11
King and Peasants.

The young King of Bavaria is fond OF
travelling incognito. Not long since be
made trip into switzerland, and there,
while crossing a secluded valley, he fell
in with three Alpine peasants and en-
tered into conversation with them. The
young men had heard that the Bavarian
sovereign was in the country, and soon
began 70 talk about him. Louis, the
Solitary, as his affectionate subjects call
him, readily joined in the discussion OF
himself, snd enjoyed it 30 we'll that
when he parted from his comrades he
left them considerably richer pecuniarily
than when they met.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-11

"Shan we build a navy?' is the quess
ton that agitates the mind of the rural
editor during the summer stiffness. But
the navy is all right. Said one OF the
characters in an original play at the
Christian union not long ago: ''Sure,
we have the finest navy in the wurTuld.
Look at all the water we have! All we
want is few ships"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-11
The Smallest woman in the World.

Lucia Zarate, the smallest woman in
the world was born in Mexico. Her
parents were peons-that is to say, half
breeds. When born she was the size of
rat. It was supposed that she was
dead, and she was put in q little box
that happened to be in the room. Soon,
however, she began to scream. She was
taken out of her box, and except that
she wss wondrously small, she soon
played and ran about like any other
child.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-11

SCOT falling on the carpet from open
chimneys OF carelessly- hantled stove
papers, if thickly covered with salt, can
be brushed up without injury to the car
pet.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-11

A little kerosene added 70 stove polish
IMPROVES Me lustra.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-11

treat; he determined upon purchasing
quarter of pound of butter.
He entered the wretched garnet that
now constituted his home with smile
upon his wan face such as had not been
seen there for months past.
"Mary, my DEAR" he said, 81 have
brought you and the little ones a luxury
for supper"
ga luxury, dear" answered his wife,
in tone of incredulity.
cay a luxury"
"Some fried fish?"
emo"
GA pot of dripping?"
GA quarter of pound of fresh butter;
really fresh butter, Mary!"
Placing on the table the two half
quartern loaves that he had been carry
ing, he drew from his pocket the luxury
in question, carefully wrapped in frag-
ment of the Daily Telegraph.
"And now, dear, you and the chill
dren must have really good feed"
All, with what pleasure did the half
starved father cut substantial and salts
fying slices of the humble, but much
needed fare. And with wha. still great
er pleasure did he see the hungry mouths
he loved so well busily devouring the
staff of Life.
"But you have not left yourself any
butter you are eating dry crust" OBJ
served Mrs. Balfour.
ell really prefer it." apologized
Herbert.
"Tn not eat another mouthful," ex-
postulated his wife, "unless-"
Cali right, my dear, all right, " inter-
rupted Herbert. "There is quite enough
left for me here.
So saying he commenced scraping the
remnant of the butter that remained
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-16
New Jersey Writings.

One of the most cunning and polite
little fellows in the State of New jersey
spent the day at a kind neighbour
house recently while his mamma was
away on a visit. His lunch hour at home
was eleven, and at the usual time he be-
gan to feel very hungry. But the family
did not lunch till noon, and as there
were no signs of preparations, Harry
1--WE will call him) was filled with the
grayest apprehensions. What to do he
didn't know. Good manners forbade
that he should ask for anything, and yet
he couldn't wait another minute. Fl
nally nature asserted her superiority to
all mere conventi0nalities, and he
yielded. How considerably he did it
will appear.
"Mrs. Thompson" said he, very
earnestly, but very tenderly, ''if you
please-will you be so very kind-as to
give me something to eat? Imean if
It isn't too much trouble"
"Why, certainly, my DEAR" she re-
piled. "What would you like to have?'
30, anything will do, ma'am-any-
thing" he responded with nervous
eagerness, ''if it isn't too expensive.
It is needless to say that he got it
Immediately.
A very different kind of q boy was
Johnny D., who was also visiting a
neighbor, but not in New Jersey. He
was offered a piece of bread and butter,
which he accepted, but not with any
great degree of enthusiasm.
"What do you say, JOHNNY" said
the lady, expecting him to say, ''Thank
YOU"
81 say it amt CAKE" was the re-
6DOnSe.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-16

A very amusing if not significant in
cident happened to the State Depart
ment guides who were showing the
French guests through the Treasury
Department. The gentlemen were
treating the Frenchmen to very puz-
zling explanations of things in the Ca
madam French of the Maine pineries.
At length the parties reached the great
vaults where the securities of the Ma
tional banks are kept. These are in
charge of Mr.. w. H. Plunkett. When
the French guests were shown he at
once began to talk with them most
fiuently in some language, which the
State Department crowd did not under
stand, but which appeared to please
the Frenchmen greatly, and put them
all at their ease at once. The State
Department gentlemen did not appear
to like the situation. They evidently
thought Mr.. Plunkett was taking the
occasion to play q joke on the French
men by q vivacious use Of the Irish
tongue, as he is well educated and
lively Irish gentleman. But when the
French gentlemen remained, and were
found to be earnestly conversing with
Mr.. Plunkett, it became known to the
State Department guides by inquiry
that Mr.. Plunkett had lived ten years
in Paris, and Auently spoke kind of
French which it was great relief to
the hcnored guests to hear.-Cincinnati
Enquirer.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-16
A Yeritable tIndia Rubber Man."

The strangest phenomenon we have
seen for a long time is now on view
in Vienna. 'Der Gummimensch, or
the India-rubber man, is quite the queer
est fellow imaginable. He is a pale,
flaccid man, with red hair and bilious
complexion; he wears black velvet
knickerbockers and is very polite. He
can seize the skin of his chest with both
hands, pull it away from his body about
eighteen inches and raise it to the level
of his head; and yet. when he leaves 60.
instead of the skin hanging in horrid
folds, it goes spreading itself again. SO
that not a crease is to be discovered.
The skin of his nose he can stretch six
inches, the skin of his fingers two inch
es, SO that his hands look sizes Nos. 90
or 30. He drags at the calf of his leg,
and behold goodly and translucent
membrane, in which can be seen the
ramitied network of arteries, pink and
pulsating. This does not hurt him. He
can-but enough. You zee that he well
deserves his title of ''Gummimensch."
What with his cadaverous face and
gluey elasticity he much reminds one of
Dore's CHASTITY portrayal of the damned
in the grand illustrations of the ''lnfer-
no." The medical faculty are highly
exercised anent this man, and they have
begged him for the smallest strip of
skin Just for a microscopical investiga-
ton. There has not been such a case
for two centuries, and in those days of
course the microscope was rather prim-
tive. ssGummimensh'' is Bavarian,
thirty-two years of age, married and has
three normal children. He charges two
forms to show himself. His skin feels
like velvet, or rather like the breast of
q plucked fowl, but it is not sweet
sensation to touch him.-ViennG Cor.
London Globe.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-16
FARM AND PRESIDE.

I'm the New York market the Early
Rose potato still leads all the rest.
-Hellebore rubbed over with mo-
lasses and put around places that roach
es and water bugs frequent, is . very
effectual poison for them.
Take q cupful of cream of the pan
of milk in the morning, and put it to
your bread when you are about mold
ing it, and it will cause the crust to be
very soft and delicate.
Ginger Snaps.-One heaping cup
of four, one cup of molasses, one-half
cup of sugar, one-haf cup of butter,
One-fourth cup of lard, one tablespoon
full of ginger. Mix and bake.
Animals when confined and supplied
with fattening feed always increase
largely in weight during the first few
weeks, after which the rate of increase
diminishes to q considerable extent.
Boiled Mackerel.- them on with
cold water and salt. When the kettle
boils. set it aside but watch it closely,
and take up the moment the eyes begin
to start and the tail to split. Sauce,
parsley and butter. Garnish, fennel
and slices of lemon.
-Old-Fashioned Gingerbread.-Two
cups best New Orleans molasses, one
cup hot water, scant half cup melted
butter, heaping tablespoonful soda,
little ginger and salt. Mix as soft IS
possible and roll out one and . hall
inches thick. Bake as quickly as you
can without scorching, and eat warm or
cold with butter.
"A Nice Plum Cake.--Six ounces OF
butter, whipped to a cream; add the
same weight of sugar; stir in four whip
ped eggs. then twelve ounces of flour;
beat we'll and add six ounces of cur
rants and six ounces of sultanas and
stoned raisins, two ounces of candied
peel, twelve almonds, pounded, q pinch
Of mace, a teaspoonful of spice and one
of king-powder.
Baked Whitefsh. Clean, rinse and
wipe dry whitefish, or any fish that
weighs three pounds, rub the fish inside
and out with pepper; fill with stuffing
made like that for poultry, but drier;
sew it up and put in hot pan with
some drippings and lump of butter;
dredge with flour and lay over the fish
few thin slices of salt pork or bits Of
butte and bake an hour and q hall,
basting occasionally.
"A Distempered Colt.-Distemper in
q colt takes about three weeks to run
its course; all the medicine required is
q light dose of Epson salts, say four to
six ounces, and good nursing. Give
warm bran mashes, linseed or oatmeal
cruel; keep the animal warm, and rub
the legs with cloths dipped in hot water;
tablespoonful of mustard in the water
would be beneficial if the legs seem to
be weak and numb.-N. Y. Times.