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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-11
The chief of the bureau of statistics

The chief of the bureau of statistics
furnishes the following information in
regard to immigration into the United
States: There arrived in the customs
districts of Baltimore, Boston, Detroit,
Huron, Minnesota, New Bedford, New
Orleans, New York, Passamaquoddy,
Philadelphia, and San Francisco, dur
ing the month ended Oct. 81, 1880,
SO, 8O8 passenger, of whom 61,312 were
immigrants, 5,605 citizens of the United
States returned from abroad, and 1851
aliens not intending to reside in the
United States. Of this total number of
immigrants there arrived from England,
1865; Wales, 10; Scotland, 1883; Ire
land, 8, 7O5; Germany, 1909; Austria,
1855; Sweden 3,486; Norway, 1,45S;
Denmark, $50; France, SOL; Switzer-
land, 922; Spain 70; Holland, $50;
Belgium, al; Italy, 1,651; Russia, 352;
Poland, 1874; Hungary, 418, Finland, IA;
Dominion of Canada, 1857; China,
474; Australasia, 81; Mexico, 3S; Portu-
gal, 80; Azores, 70; and from all other
countries, 20.
A soap-eating match was a diversion
at Springfield, o. The quickest de-
vourer of bar of yellow soap got a
prize of S.. The winner performed the
feat III less than an hour, but was much
longer in the hands Of a physician, be-
cause the I've poisoned him.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-11
Curios;ties Of the Voice,

DR.. Delaunay, in paper read recent
lyIbefore the French Academy of Medi-
cine, gives some details on the history
and limits of the human voices, which
he obtained after much patient research.
According to the doctor, the primitive
inhabitants of Europe were all tenors;
their descendants of the present day are
baritones, and their grandsons will have
semi-bass voices. Looking at different
races, he calls attention to the fact that
inferior races, such as the negroes. ETC.,
have higher voices then white men.
The voice has also tendency to deepen
with age-the tenor of sixteen becomes
baritone at twenty-five, and bass at
thirty-five. Fair complexioned people
have higher voices than the dark-skinned
the former being usually sopranos or
tenors, the latter being contraltos or
bassos. Tenor says the doctor, "are
slender built and thin; bassos are stoutly
made and corpulent. This may be the
rule, but one is inclined to think there
are more exceptions to this than are
necessary to prove the rule. The same
remark applies to the assertion that
thoughtful, Intelligent men have always
a deeptoned, voice, whereas triflers
and frivolous persons have soft, weak
voices. The tones of the voice are
preceptibly higher, he points out, before
than after meal, which is the reason
why tenors dine early, in order that their
voices may not suffer. Prudent singers
eschew strong drinks and spirituous
liquors, especially tenors, but the bassos
can eat and drink with impunity. 'The
SOUTH" says the doctor, furnishes the
tenor, the north the bassos," in proof Of
which he adds that the majority Of
French tenors come from the south OF
France, while the bassos belong to the
northern department.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-11
A New Fashionable Freak.

"Clara Bell" in Cincinnati Enquirer.
A Broadway glovier has hit upon the
idea of modelling the hands of his Gus
toners. He takes an impression of the
members in wax, and then makes their
counterparts in plaster of paris. These
hands he uses in making gloves to or
der, Just as shoemakers conform lasts
to suit your peculiar corns, and there
by get perfect fits. The only drawback
seems to be that the best gloves cannot
be made here, but are imported. Still
the fancy pleases many of our frivolous
women, or at least those who have small
and shapely hands and are proud to see
them reproduced in plaster. l know q
Murray Hill girl, by the way, who lad
her exceptionally pretty hand done in
marble, and gave it as birthday pres
ent to her affianced husband for pa
per weight. Do you see the beauty of
the idea? The hand that is soon to be
his is before him as he tolls at his desk.
hope her own hand won't be so hard
when she comes to conjugally cuff him
-that'S all
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-11
Tmnortant IN Youthful Lowers.

The recently reported case of Ditch
am VS.. Morrel, says the St. James (Lon-
don) Gazette, is one which youthful
lovers may study with profit. The
point in issue was weather the fixing
of the wedding day was a ratification of
a promise to marry or an evidence OF
fresh promise. The actual promise to
marry was made when the plaintiff and
defandent were under age, and no time,
for the happy event was fixed. For
some years these two young people re-
NAMED engaged-this being after the
defandent had passed the age of 81.
Then at last the day was fixed, but be-
fore it arrived the defendant refused to
perform his promise; and hence an &C
ton. 1t has been decided that pro-
mise of marriage falls within the In
fants' Relief act, and cannot be ratified
after the person charged by it has at
tanned Fl. Hence in order to give a
good ground of action, the lady must
make out that after the gentleman has
attained 81 he has made a fresh promise.
This, in the case of Ditcham vs.. MorTel,
Lord Coleridge was of opinion the cir
cumstances did not show to have been
done; while Mr.. Justice Lindley and
Mr.. Justice Denman came to the oppo-
site conclusion. Consequently, if the
majority of the court decided rightly,
it is clear that every slight evidence is
enough to show that new promise has
been made; but it may be doubted
whether the present decision will be
widely followed as a precedent.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-11
Why the Romans Wish Each Other "A
Good August"
Letter from Rome.

Letter from Rome.
Even in the earliest days it was the
custom to wish good August and
to make presents and to give dinners
and entertainments. The reason-for
there is method in all these Roman
madnesses- that August is the most
unhealthy month in the year in Rome.
If you escape the fevers until then, you
can rarely escape them in August, uni
less unheard-of precautions are taken,
of which you soon get tired. AS rest,
sleep and good wine are the surest pre-
ventives Of Roman fever, the August
gifts usually take the form of poultry
and wine, If you can eat well, sleep
well and drink well and never 60 into
the open air while there is q ray of sun,
you may escape the fever. But eat
irregularly, and drink poor wine and
90 out during the hot hours, and
sooner or later you will be seized with
fever, and Roman fever is not easily
forgotten 1t begins with shivering
fit that shakes the very room in which
the patient lies, nor can the heaping
on of eider-down Quilts and pillows
stop it. 1t sometimes continues for
hours. The teeth chatter and you feel
as if suddenly cast naked on an iceberg.
When the shivering fit ceases the fever
commences, and after that comes a
profuse perspiration. The more you
perspire the better, for if the patient
does not perspire, he is suffering from
the worst kind of Roman. fever, called
the s'perniciosa, whose very name
makes Romans quake with terror, for
it carries one off in couple OF hours.
Native Romans think nothing of these
fevers; they do not even call in a doctor
if all goes on well; that is, if the per-
spiration comes out all right They
know exactly what to do, and the fevers
have no more effect on them then that
of keeping them in bed during the act
ual feverishness. Between the spells,
which return very regularly, they eat,
drink, work, walk and 60 to theaters,
as if nothing was the matter with them;
and will sometimes continue thus for
more than eighteen months. They look as
yellow as the lemons, the juice of which
they drink, but that is all. With Amer
leans and English, however. the case
is different In the first place, we be-
gin by being very frightened, and the
quinine has not the same effect on us as
it has upon the Romans. Our stomachs
reject it after very few doses, much to
the doctors dismay. A couple of fever
ish attacks reduce us to state of pro-
stration. We are unable to lift hand
kerchief. The dreaded "perniciosa"
soon makes its appearance, unless we
can be removed to better air, when the
fever disappears as if by enchantment.
At the first sign of Roman fever,
therefore, every American should leave
Rome Immediately if only for Frascati,
Albano, or any of the other Summer
resorts which are at the gates of Rome.
Doctors send away patients in their
beds, if they are too weak to be removed
otharwiSa
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-11

Mr.. Findlay Dun, member OF the
royal agricultural commission in En-
gland, states that throughout the mid
land and eastern counties and in some
of the southern counties the position of
the English farmer is critical, and
shows little sign of amendment. To
render English farming less precarious
and more profitable, Mr., Dun recon-
mends greater diversity. Less depend
ence than heretofor must be placed on
arabic culture; less wheat must be gen.
orally grown; more live stock must be
reared and fed; more dairying, veget-
able, and fruit culture must be prose-
cuted. The old lands of England he
considers could not be economically
farmed on the rough and ready system
successful in this country. They re-
quire increasing capital, skill, and re-
source to make them yield even q fair
reward for the labor expended on them.
For the advantage of landlords, tenants,
the community at large, in fact, MIR.
Dun thinks that the old laws of entail
and primogeniture should be either
abolished or so changed as to suit the
requirements of modern times. They
were good enough in their day, but
their day is gone. The position of the
English farmers has become national
question. Shortened farm crops, dis
ease among live stock, and other causes
have combined to shrink English farm
returns from 10000, 900 to f20, 100000
annually.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-11
Is Damn" an Qath7


Damn as a noun substantive,
is an old regular word, used frequent
ly in English writers down to tho
first part Of the seventeenth century
We do not see why so ponderous a
word has been dropped by lexicograph,-
ers. In some places, as, if we speak
how original sin lies heavy on us, it
seems a most appropriate word. 'We
inherit, with Adams nature, the damn
cleaving to itr' This use of the word
came down to our American GRANDPA
theirs, and lasted even to the time when
the continental currency" was dead
Gloss" So came the expression mot
worth a continental DAMN" or "dead
loss.'' And for short: '.Not worth 3
damn''-or bit Of paper that was dead
loss! It is not to the credit Of our Ameri-
can photographers that they have not
recognized this origin OF phrase pecu-
liarly American, and that if slang at
first, having basis in fact, like count
less number Of other words, it has been
enrolled as factor in our accepted Ian
guage- as .sgerrymandering" has been.
The people did better than their writers
of primers, grammars and dictionaries.
Damn means loss Tin American par
lance, as above, . worthless scrip).-
Damnable, for its general meaning, sig
mites 'sworthy of severe censure" On
" when used in theological connection
does it imply what puritans suppose
1t, most certainly, is not swearing!
And, except by the imposition OF the
Puritan Specification, is not cursing! And
yet we remember hearing people, using
a phrase whose history they knew not,
say II do not care cuss"-meaning q
cl1I,Se tis
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-11
A Bonanza Found in a Paper MIL

One of the girls at the paper mill yes
terday found in bundle Of pape-S that
she was asserting registered letter
containing 1925 in greenbacks. The
letter was addressed to man in Lom-
poe, and it came to the paper mill in
lot of papers that were procured in the
San Francisco Post Office. The letter
bore recent date, the 10th instant.
Not being familiar with greenbacks the
girl did not know the value OF the
ssfind," and divided with her compan-
ions, but the value of the pieces of paper
dawning on her mind, she took what
she had left to the book-keeper, Walter
Baggs, and he told her that the green
backs were as good as gold. He made
an attempt to gather the money togeth-
CT, so as to restore it to its owner, the
address being preserved. He obtained
what the girl had left, $65, but the wo-
man, who had been presented with $25
before the value of the ''fnd'' was as
certained, had the misfortune to ''have
her pocket picked while she was down
stairs, and consequently could not re-
store the money.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-11
TO YOUNG MEN.
\ Sure Cure

The awful effects Of early vice, which brings or.
ganic weakness, destroying both mind and body,
with all its dreadful ills, permanently cured. The
symptoms before consumption sets In are palpita-
ton Of the heart, tmidty, trembling, nervous dis
charges, dyspepsia, etc., with those sad conditions Of
mind so much TO be feared, f.reetfulness chaos Of
, SOCIAL life and brooding meisnchoS Varied mem.
or those entering hat happy life, aware Of physi
cal debility e1citabiy of the nervous organic dim
unition other Irregularities, quickly assisted
Young people losing their health, spending time
with pretending quacks and unsuitable treatment,
forcing diseases into their bndies with deadly poi
liver and lungs stomach and bowels, speedily CURED
No false modesy should prevent them calling ct oncs
on DR.. wASsERZUG, 4S9 Jackson st., between
7th and 8th up stairs The doctor can be consulted
at any time, at his Office and family residence 1t the
above place. DR.. wassersug viii positively stag
here II months. Medicine for chronic diseases seet
everywhere. Write an dmention aymptoms.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-11
A Stranga Story.
Vienna Letter to the London Globe.

Vienna Letter to the London Globe.
In the Mavergasse lives very pretty
seamstress, Caroline w. Last week
gentleman met her on the stairs as she
was about to take an evening stroll.
His looks were wild and anxious, and
he shivered, while the sweat stood on
his brow. He complained OF cold and
thirst, got Fraulein W. to light a fire,
and sent for some wine, poured himself
out glass, and just as he was raising
it to his lips dropped down dead. "Who
is hep What is hep What do you know
of himp" asked the police of the girl,
and all she could answer was, ''Noth-
absolutely nothing" In his peck
cts were found a few florins, but no
card, no letter, which could serve as a
means of identification. The post NOR
tenn revealed extensive heart disease as
the immediate cause OF death. There
was nothing for it but to take the body
to the Morgue, although by the dress of
the deceased he was evidently person
of means. Here the body lay three
DAYS, and from here would assuredly
have gone per ''No. o. to the cemetery
and have remained forever unrecog-
nized, had not Mr.. William Hunning,
First Secretary of the American Consul
General, accompanied by friend, come
and asked to see the occupants OF the
death-chamber. The two gentlemen
passed down the row of silent sleepers
till they came to where lay the body of
the man whose sudden death has just
been described. sGood God!'' shouted
Mr.. Hunning, ..there is Eugene T. Bell"
1.-TWO witnesses are required to identity
q body" said the warden, and, as Mr..
Hunning's friend had not been person
ally acquainted with the deceased, Mr..
Weaver, the American Consul for Wen
ma, was fetched in all haste, and he,
too, at once recognized in the deceased
the remains of his colleague, MIR. Bell,
American Consul General in Pesth. A
mere chance thus led to the Identified
ton of body which would otherwise
have been buried few hours later in a
nameless and silent grave. The fate OF
Mr.. Bell would then have remained for
ever one of those mysteries OF which
any ones experience can furnish nu-
merous instances lG a
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-11
Toronto Fences,

Z The Toronto Globe says that there
must be to Toronto 100 miles of streets
lined on each side with costly and hide
Gus fences are innocent of all utility
except that they exercise some slight
restraining influence upon the hordes
of young barbarians who prowl about
seeking for mischief to commit. Probab-
" few people have any idea of the
amount of money which is wasted in
these fences. Assuming that we have
100 miles of street so adorned, this
makes ], O56, 900 feet of front fence; and
taking the lots to be of an average width
of 80 feet; and the houses as standing
at an average distance of 10 feet from
the street line we have another 1885, 900
feet worse than useless division fences
in front of the houses, making in all
1,342, 900 feet of front fence. There is
no use of this fencing that cost greater
sum than 40 cents a foot than less.
Taking the lost sum OF 80 cents foot as
its first cost our front fences stand us in
the sum $671, OOO., The painting of the
fences cost 20 cents square yard of
their surface, representing another in
vestment of at least $4,000. The ex-
IRENE average life of the fencing is Is
years, and during that time the painting
must be renewed at least twice, or if the
owner have any pretension to tidiness,
four times. These figures, which are by
no means overstated, will give some
idea of the amount of money that is
thrown away in fences. When it is
considered, too, that 999 Of the gates
belonging to these fences are woeful
failures against the casual dog; that they
either will not shut or else will not stay
shut; that if they do shut they shut with
such bang the paterfamilies is always
on thorns for fear his children fingers or
his dogs tail should be sacrificed; and
even as the interposing medium between
procrastinating spoons, the front gate
is really nothing but nuisance, deriv-
ing all it's pleasant memories from as
sociations only; it will be seen that the
case to be made out against front fences
and their concomitant gates is simply
crushing. They have, in fact, only the
one little redeeming point previously
indicated, namely, that the young cub
of the human species has apparently
been born with respect for fence
which is in realty no barrier whatever.
but only the symbol of a barrier
survival in fact of the moat, drawbridge
and portcallis, which were once the pre-
requisites of q sound nights sleep.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-11
Division of Hours and Minutes.

Why is one hour divided into sixty
minutes, and each minute again into
sixty seconds? This question is often
asked by intelligent children; and the
answer is this: We have sixty divisions
on the dials of our clocks and watches,
because the old Greek astronomer,
Hipparchus, who lived in the second
century before Christ, accepted the
Babylonian system of reckoning time,
that system being sexigesimal The
Babylonians were acquainted with the
decimal system; but for common or
practical purposes they counted by soss'
and say9, the sossos representing sixty,
and the saros sixty times six-thirty-
six hundred. From Hipparchus, that
mode of reckoning found its way into
the works of Ptolemy, about 100 A. D.,
and hence was carried down the stream
of science and civilization, and found
the way to the dial-plates OF our clocks
and watches
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-11
Nutrneg,s.

Nutmegs grow on little trees which look
like small pear-trees and are generally
over twenty feet high. The flowers are
like the lily of the valley. They are
pale and very fragrant. The nutmeg
is the seed of the fruit, and mace is the
thin covering over the seed. The fruit
is about as large as peach. When
ripe, it breaks open and shows the little
nut inside. The trees grow on the
islands of Asia and in tropical America.
They bear fruit for seventy or eighty
years, having ripe fruit upon them at
all seasons.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-11
Alleged Fiction Stranger than Romance.

Ss>s~>~S9S>
The pleasing picture of the Iowa hero
inc, who had two pickerel under harness
and was drawn by them up and down a
pond in beautiful little boat, was the
sweetest fish story ever clipped with an
exchange editor shears. But who shall
say that the ingenuity of the local
chronicler has got to the end of its
tether and devised the sweetest possible
fish story? Here is the Whitehall Times,
for instance, with romance of the
queen of the speckled beauties. A man
has an artificial trout pond with at least
three thousand fish, each weighing from
half pound to two pounds, more or
less. He also has little girl, five years
old, who has succeeded in training the
fish so that she can 60 to the edge Of
the pond and with handful of crumbs
feed them from her chubby hand. They
have learned to jump out of the water
and snatch worms from her fingers, and
they are extremely fond Of their little
mistress. One day she lost her balance
and pitched headlong into the water
where it was deep. She says that when
she went ''away down. she called lusti-
" for help Her cries quickly attract
ed her parents, and they were Mortified
at seeing the little girl floating upon
the surface of the pond. The father
rushed to the waters edge and reached
cut for his pet, and as he raised her
from the water a perfect solid mass OF
trout was found beneath her. These
faithful subjects of the little queen, as
she fell, quickly gathered beneath her
and thus showed their love for their
mistress by bearing up her body until
aid arrived, thus preventing her from
meeting a watery grave. IT'S beau
iiful tale, but the next file from the Far
West may have another still lovelier.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-11
Why "Salamanders2"
From the London Globe.


A controversy is going on in the Ger
man papers as to the origin of the
word ..salamander" among the academ-
ical youth. A 'salamander" is sub
stitute for the touching and clinking of
glasses at drinking bout. In the year
1881 the Heidelberg students deter
mined to abolish the old German GUS
tom at their own extraordinary solem-
mites, and to substitute in its place a
new drinking ritual of their own. At
the word of command every man stands
up, and instead of striking his glass
against the rim of the glass of each OF
his fellows, he shouts out with all his
might the apparently meaningless
word, ''Salamanderr' One pathological
critic has discovered that there was
never any mystery in the word, but
that it was simply corruption of the
command, ''Drink all together (Sduft
ale mil ei,andea'!) Another asserts
that the word was derived from a
Hebrew-Greek combination, lSchalo-
maada1 (Hail to the manD; while a
third contends that it originated with
a student who wished to introduce Ma
sonic salamander into academicial So
IDENTITIES. 1t appears, however, that a
fourth theory traces back its origin to
our own language. The American Off
GERS under Washington, we are inform
ed, used to set fire to the rum in their
glasses and dring it down while it was
burning. They called this peculiar ex-
ercise ''making a salamander." We
place no great faith in any of these hy-
potheticaI derivations. Customs arise
often from some freak of the moment,
and this is particularly likely to be the
case with a convivial custom such as
the erercitana salan0aClYa
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-11
About a Doomed One.

"Your future husband seems very
exacting; he has been STIMULATING for
all sorts of things" said a mother to
her daughter, who was on the point of
being married. '.Never mind. mamma"
rejoined the affectionate girl, who was
already dressed for the wedding; ''these
are his last wishes
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-11
A Coming Miss.

A little girl in Belfast recently drop
ped her doll and broke its arm. The
doll was favorite one, and the acct
dent was to the child a calamity of the
severest nature. The tears started, the
little lips were trembling with grief,
when a bright thought struck her. With
beaming face, she exclaimed, Papa,
I don't know as l care, after all. Per-
haps it will be put in the paper"