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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-09
Miscellaneous Items.

"What would you do if mamma should
die ?" she pathetically asked her little three
year-old daughter. 81 don't know" re-
piled the infant, with downcast eyes and
melancholy voice. :" I Impose should have
to thpank myself"
A little girl went timidly into store at
Bellaire, O., the ether morning. and asked
the clerk how many shoe-strings she could
get for five cents. "How long do you
want them?" he asked. 81 want them to
keep" was the answer, in tone of slight
surprise.
How much are these goods yard 1"
said gentleman at dry-goods store,
the other day, as he picked up and ex-
amined a piece of RULED silk. Good
gracious cried the Mortified clerk THAT
isn't for sale. That's the end of hdy's
train. Shes just going up to the third
story in the elevator"
Il would announce to the congregation
that, probably by mistake, there was left at
the meeting house this morning small cot
ton umbrella, much damaged by time and
wear, and of an exceedingly pale blue color;
in the place whereof was taken a very large
black Nix umbrella of great beauty. Blum
ders of this sort, my brethren, are getting
little too commo2.-B0Stos Journal.
An Irishman once saw a clock which
showed the Greenwich and Dublin time,
and he saw that the Dublin time was twenty
minutes behind that of Greenwich, and he
asked how that was, and it was explained to
him that Dublin being to the west of the
first meridian. must have its time later than
that of Greenwich. Then, be the powers"
says Pat, There is another injustice to ould
Ireland
A man went into a store the other day
and asked to look at revolver, and the
weapon was shown him. Then he asked to
see cartridge and one was handed him
Then he placed the muzzle to his head and
scattered his brains over the store. "Wen, :"
CALCULATED the aStonished storekeener
glancing at the soiled walls, ga man who
will do such thing deserves to be sent to
iail for two wears "-No7Tistoacz He. aid.
A little girl in Oil City, just recovering
indulgent parents, who buy herany number
VI tOy dAo 4ASO - Lev OftJS
she said s. Mamma, l believe I'll ask papa
to buy me baby carriage for my doll"
The brother-a precocious youngster of
only six years of age-spoke up at once, and
said, g would advise you to strike him for
it right away, then; you won't get it when
you get well"
A Western man, having lost his wife, was
accosted by synpathizing friend, who re-
marked upon his woe-begone appearance.
well, 1 guess you would look thin, too, ~
was the melancholy rejoinder, if you had
to get up before daylight, make the fires,
draw water, split wood, and feed the cat
tie, all before breakfast just tell you
what it is, if don't get somebody to fill
poor, dear, sainted Maria's place, I win be
resting by her side before many weeks are
past"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-09
HOW 1T SOUNDS.

Some writer has produced q poem entitled,
"Sounds From the Sanctum" 1t reads
just too pretty, and gives rise to the thought
that the author never visited the sanctum
when business was in full blast If he had
called about midnight, for instance, he
would have seen two saints, one porting over
proof-slp, the other holding the copy,
and the sounds would have been something
Like this: Proof-reader-"A As flowers with
out the sunshine are-comma-so-c
without you-comma-do full stop
breathe dark and dismal mare" Copy
holder: Thunder not mare-air."
Proof-reader: 81 breathe dark and dis
NAL air-comma-as fowers-co comma"
Copy-holder: 'Shoot the comma" Proof
reader" IT'S done. AS flowers without the
sunshine -semi-colon-con slug
seven, he never justifes his ines-No Joy
In ife-comma-no worms Copy
holder: Warmth" Proof-reader-"N No
warmth share-comma-A health and
vigorous flies" Copy-holder: "Blazesi
Health and vigor fly" Proof-reader:
g Health and yigor fy-fuu stop" That's
about the sound Of it whom poetry is on
deck.-Des Holmes Register.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-09
Adventure With an Alligator.

In the height of the dry season, when il
the torrid regions, all animated nature pants
with consuming thirst, party of the wood
cutters, English and Irish, went to hunt in
the neighborhood of lake, called Pies Pond,
in Beef Island, one of the smaller islands of
the Bay Of Campeachy. To this pond the
wild cattle repaired in herds to drink, and
here the hunters lay in wait for them. The
chase had been prosecuted with great success
for week, when an Irishman of the party,
going into the water during the day, stumbled
upon an alligator, which seized him by the
knee. His cries alarmed his companions,
who, fearing that he had been seized by the
Spaniards, to whom the island belonged,
and who chose the dry season to hunt and
repel their unwelcome neighbors, instead Of
affording assistance, fed from the huts which
they had erected. The Irishman, seeing no
appearance of help, with happy presence Of
mind quietly waited till the alligator loosened
its teeth to take new and surer hold; and
when it did so, snatched away his knee, In
terposing the butt-end of his gun in its
stead, which the animal seized SO firmly that
it was jerked out Of the mans hand and
carried of. He then crawled up neigh
boring tree, again shouting after his COM
rades, who now found courage to return.
His gun was found next day, dragged ten OF
twelve PAGES from the place where it had
been seized By the alkutor.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-09
Daniel Webster.
MaGane

Daniel Webster was farmer and took
delight in country things. He had patri-
arch's love of sheep. Choice breeds thereof
he had. He tookdelight in cows. He titled
paternal acres with tis OWN oxen. He loved
to give the kline fodder. 1t was pleasant to
hear him talk Of oxen; and but three days
before he left the earth, too i'll to visit them,
his oxen lowing came to see their sick lord,
and as he stood in his door, his great cattle
were driven up, that he might smell their
healthy breath, and look his last on those
broad, generous faces that were never false
to him.
What an eEecting scene is here described
Daniel Webster loved these animals for their
own sake and not for their value in silver or
gold. He loved to feed them with his own
hands in order to witness their happiness
while satisfying their hunger and to win
their love for him. They loved their kind
owner, and no wonder that they came low
ing, one by one, to see their sick lord The
Scripture says, "The OK knoweth its owner. "
Then all these splendid animals, numbering
between one and two hundred, knew Daniel
Webster as they were driven up and looked
on him for the last time. and who shall say
they did not miss him and mourn for him
when he came to see them no more? No
doubt this great man enjoyed more real
happiness in the society of these dumb brutes
of every kind on the Marshfeld farm, than
he ever realized in hearing the plaudits of
his fellow men as his elegant words rang
out in the Senate Chamber Hall of our great
nation and thousands of worshippers were
following in his train. He knew that fame
was but a breath, and had learned, by bitter
experience, that the most devoted of his
worshippers might desert and betray him,
but that not one of these guiltless creatures
would ever prove false to him.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-09
THE GRAVEL MINE.

If you want to make certain Virginia
City merchant real mad, ask him if he has
a gravel mine to sell. He got to playing
poker one day and won 5000, but took in
payment an undeveloped gravel mine.
His friends teased him terribly abous the al
legged worthless property, and at last, get
ting little excited, he told them that be-
fore he got through with that mine they
would see that he was not such {. fool as
they took him for. Then he wrote to some
rich acquaintance that he had splendid
claim, which, being hard up, he would sell
cheap for $4,000. Then he bought $500
worth of gold dust and nuggets, and sailed
the claim thoroughly with them The CAPT
talists came, prospected little, bought it
Immediately, and paid him his 81, Coo cash.
In three weeks they got out Ss, 900 worth Of
of ore. That Virginia City man didn't
smile for month.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-09
NORWEGIAN TRAINS.

In the slowness of their trains the Nor
wegians excel the Dutch, and yet the latter,
for this merit or defect, according to the
time, nerves, and fancy of the individual
traveller, may place themselves as the head
of other European countries. Bu. here all
comparison ends, for while the Dutch pos
sesses but a small territory, sufficiently in
tersected by lines, Norway, with its great
tract of country, has scarcely any railways
at all. Nor is it probable that she viii ever
be much better off in this respect. The
land is SO thinly populated that railroads
could never pay. From the billy nature of
the country their construction would cost
much, while the people are poor. And
lastly, the present mode of travelling is all
they need. Time is of less consequence
to the Norwegians than to other people, be-
cause they have less to do. They do not
rush through life, as we do, for instance,
giving to one day tie work of six. They
breathe; the remainder of the civilized
world is, for the most part, .breathless. If
they have a hundred miles TO travel, they
can as well devote week to it as half a
dozen hours; or, if they cannot, they wisely
stay at home So THAI travelling in Norway
is very much what it vas il England CEN
fury ago. A little slower and more leisure
ly, perhaps. now than then, for nowhere in
Norway will you come across the fine sight
Of a coach and four come tearing up hill and
down daleht express speed. The average
rate of progress is about four miles an hour;
and, do what you Will, taking one thing
with another, you cannot get much beyond
this. Their railways, by comparison, are
not much better-of stately speed, perhaps,
but irritating THE A1yosy.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-09
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Gossip Many Tongued-Caoinst S.assses-
EFriends TO Reward, iand ut Least one
Eremv 70 Pupisn-Jones and Conkling


Correspondence st, Paul Giobe.l
WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. l, ISL
Those who predicted that President Ar
thur would walk strictly in the steps OF
his predecessor, and be the executor of the
politicaI will of President Garfield,
rather than president with an individu-
aIitv and viii of his own, have begun
to learn that they were mistaken. 1t IS
said, by those who ought to know, that
there will be sweeping changes IN the
cabinet and in the official personnel OF the
government, both at home and abroad
1t is doubtful If any member of the pres
ent cabinet will hold his portfolio until
the regular session of congress convenes.
1t would be idle to guess who will consti-
tute the new cabinet. The rumer is that
Mr.. Boutwell, will be made secretary Of
the treasury. He held this Office under
Grant, and is Thoroughly acquainted with
the nature of the department. He IS
moreoves in accord with the Grant,
Conkling and Arthur wing OF the
party.
1t is believed that President Arthur
intends TO overhaul the treasury depart
ment from vault to attic, and to explore
every rat hole in it. This department is
largely filled with the political household
of the late secretary, now Senator Sher-
m, who forced Arthur to leave the New
York custom house, under lmputation OF
dishonesty and mal-adminlstratlon. MIR.
Sherman little thought then that Arthur
would be president Of the United States,
with power mercilessly to expose the In
ner management of this immense depart
ment, and to discharge the large ert0ur-
dqs that Sherman has appointed to
lucrative places. Many relations OF MIR.
Sherman are in the treasury department;
one of them has been charged with ex-
tensive peculation, and many expect dis
closures from the treasury department
scarcely less startling than those that
have been made in the postoffice depart
ment. Ex-Secretary Fish, Gen. Grant,
and Mr.. Conkling, are all mentioned for
the place of Mr.. Blaine. Gossip is rife,
and newspaper men, who have ar
rived in large numbers anticipate an
unusually interesting season, from jour
nalistic standpoint. 1t is conceded that
this will be very stalwart adninistra-
ton, in sentiment, at least, but such is
the composition of congress that Presi-
dent Arthur will be handicapped and IN
able to give pronounced political effect
to ultra blue stalwartism. All his i'm
portant nominations will depend for con-
firmation on a Democratic senate.
There are those who theoretically in
sist that this will be an Arthur, and not
a Conkling administration, but those
who have hastily eliminated Mr.. Conk-
ling from national politics know little of
the past and see little of the present.
Senator Jones, the presidents host, went
yesterday to Utica, and is now in con-
ference with the ex-senator. This is not
the only straw, but 1t is enough, if not
to break the came's back, at least, to
show which way the wind blows.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-09
DOGS AND THE WEATHER.

Dogs are not without their weather-lore.
Thus, when they eat grass it is a sign of
rain; if they roll on the ground and scratch,
or become drowsy and stupid, change in
the weather may be expected. AS indeed in
the case of the cat, most of their turnings
and twistings are supposed to be prognosti-
cations of something. There are numerous
other items of folklore connected with the
dog to which we can only incidentally al
lude. Thus in Ireland it is considered un-
lucky to meet barking dog early in the
morning, and on the other hand just as for
tunate for one to enter house the first
thing in the day. They are commonly said
to possess wonderful instinct for discern
ing character, generally avoiding il-tem.
pered persons, and making friends with any
stranger who happens to be of kind and
cheerful disposition. The life of dog is
sometimes said to be bound up with that of
bis master or mistress. When either dies,
the other cannot live. 1t is curious that this
faithful companion of man should have be-
come a term of reproach. Thus we find
various phrases, such as I" bolt" dogs
face" "dog's leach, "dog- trick, &C., all
of which were intended to convey the idea
of contempt. In days gone by it was a
common practice in the country house for
the dog to turn the spit at the kitchen fire,
custom which is thus described by DIR.
Caius, founder of the college at Cambridge
which bears his name.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-09
Vanilla.
tracks in the SNOW

Little is generally known about this plant
except that its long slender pods are used to
favor cakes and liquors. 1t is an orchide
that grows wild in tropical America, where
it will climb along for hundreds of feet, so
long as it finds a support. The flowers are
clustered together fifteen or twenty at a time,
and are greenish white; the pistil of each
is protected by membrane, which prevents
the pollen from penetrating inside, unless
some insect or other accidental agent happen
to tear it open, circumstance which renders
it somewhat difficult to get pods without
artificial means, consisting in tearing open
the membrane with needle and bringing
the anthera close to the stigma. By this
patient operation the plant soon becomes
laden with the covered pods; these are green
at first, they then become yellow, and lastly
chocolate colored when ripe. The seeds
they contain are innumerable, bat most
frequently barren in cultivated vanilla,
which is therefore best propagated by cut
tings. a method rendered peculiarly easy by
the circumstance that the plant produces a
vast number of aerial radicals OF shoots.
Two species of vanilla are grown in the
Island of La Reunion, whittier they were
imported from America some twenty years
ago. In 1851 the quantity of pods gathered
were not more than 80 kilogms, at so francs
each in 1861 it had risen to 1879 kilos,
at ll9 francs, and in 1872 the production
was Ii 900 kilos, at 160 francs. A single
hectare 1.-TWO and half acres) will yield a
crop worth $4,000 francs, and there are
some that produce double that quantity.
To this, however, there is serious draw
back; vanilla growing exhausts the soil
very rapidly, since it will absorb from it
more than double the proportion of active
principles (potash, phosphorus lime, and
magnesia) that the sugar-cane does.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-09
OUR BURGLAR INTERVIEWED.

Constant practice isimproving ourburglar,
and he really bids fair to make his mark
sometime in the profession of his choice.
An odd job Of his, recently, was bit of fine
art. He called casually at the residence Of
Mrs. Nancy Poole, just north of the Hooker
school-house, in Springfield, Mass and af-
ter chatting pleasantly with the inmates Of
the house and rummaging around, took his
departure without doing any damage. He
did this because there wasn't anything VAL
liable enough to lug off in the house. He
entered by cellar window, and first went
into the second story, which was occupied
by three boarders. He entered the room of
one of the men, who, thinking it was
mate Of his, said, els that you, Bill?" to
which the burglar pleasantly said, eyes"
Then our burglar went down stairs, and
taking box OF letters, &C., from the bu-
reau in Mrs. Poole's room, carried it into
the kitchen and looked it over leisurely by
his dark lantern. The lady heard him,
and supposing it was one of the boarders
who intended to start off early, asked what
time it vas, and the man replied, ''Thrce
o'clock" He continued to stumble around
the room adjoining her chamber until Mrs.
Poole's suspicious were aroused, but he told
her in answer to her inquiries that he was
"Bill.' He then coolly went up to The room
which he had first entered, got bunch of
keys from the pocket Of some clothes on a
chair, opened a chest, and examined its
contents, looked in vaise and sclutinized
a closet. The man in bed suggested to
him, when he was about half through, still
thinking it was one of the other boarders,
that the burglar had better light the lamp,
which the visitant did, and continued his
search. Finally he went down stairs in dis
gust at finding no booty, and out by the
cellar where he entered. And the boarders
know that it was our burglar, for there are
tracks in the SNOW.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-09
SUNBEAMS


Egyptian affairs-Mummies.
Are drums sold by the pound?
A narrow escape-A fre-ladder
A compositor makes money hand over
fist.
A tableau is frequently nothing tableau
about
1t is the infant-tree that shoots. - Whsts-
hall Times.
stem-winder-the ivy vine.-Y oa@ers
Statesman.
An undertaken gets his living where an
other man dies.
The preachers vocation is sinnercure.-
Salem Sunbeam.
Beggars description-the story of tramp.
Boston Journal Of Commerce.
Gould not the doctors fee be justly called
Ill gotten gains. YoDkers Statesman.
Salt Goldfish should be sold under the
name of dry goods. -DanieIsoa'cilS Se''ts-
nel
When a man is rolling in wealth his for
tune is appropriately expressed In round
| numbers.
A Vermont editor claims to have seen Q
rainbow at night, and the temperance peo-
pie despair of him.
On seeing house being whitewashed, q
small boy asked, "Man, if you please, are
you going to shave that house
When an Indiana woman addresses hen
husband as old CORPSE" he goes and ap-
plies for divorce, and the Court grants it.
| It looks bad to see scissors grinder
busily engaged in front of newspaper office
| two days in a week.-Syr0cuse Sunday
| Times
Deadwood obituaries state that " the de-
ceased was of an unobtrusive nature, when
he didn't poke into more than three fights o
week.
The Stats on the shutter of our Office win
| dow are In q dilapidated condition.
Please help the blind. "-H0ekens1ek Re
publican.
st. Louis girls say that those of Chicago
| never hal shoes that are mates, because
of the difdculty of finding two sides Of
| leather alike.
''No cash paid out after business hours"
| said Smythekins to the midnight highway
| man who suggested the transfer of his purse.
Salem Sunbeam.
| A contractor, who makes business Of
| repairing streets and sidewalks, frequently
| complains that his business is Tagging
| Boston Journal Of Commerce.
Madam, said lawyer to his lady client,
in this case shall charge only nominal
fee." ga nominal fee," exclaimed the
| lady; "thats phenomenal"
| No President of the United States ever
parted his name in the middle. There
| is moral in this, If any one is enough
| interested to pick it -,SteU6eraoiAe Her.
| aid.
A cable dispatch from England has an
| nounced the death of the Duchess of Oneida
| "a short horn cow.-S0nseryigle Journal.
He who had steers to.shed, shed them now.
| Salem Sunbeam.
The woman who died from contraction Of
corset evidently wasted her opportunity.
-Syacuse Sunday Times. Grim-visagsd
death stays not his hand, but lace her in the
| grave.-He0k2lk Constitution.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-09

A MONSTER cutie fish, the body O. which
was from ten TO twelve feet in length, it's
arms or suckers being six feet long, and in
some parts as thick as mans thigh, was
found recently lying on the beach at Negi-
shi, near Yokohama, in Japan. A mans
hat would scarcely cover one of its eyes.
It was sent to Yokohama. After lying at
the market for a few hours it was sent to
Toxic, IL enterp-ising Snowman having
purchased it for exhibition there. The
: asmen who secured this specimen pro-
i.ounee it female, it being minus the
shell commonly found on the back Of
the inl-discharging breast of the stronger
GOV
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-09

The Peters6oargsk,n VisdomosG insists
that the popular estimate of the population
of Russia Is very far behind the times.
The grand total of the population for the
year ending December 81, 1879, it places at
s7,ooO,G0o, which figures, it predicts, viii IN
Two years be increased to 100, 200, 600.
Whether allowance is made IN this estimate
Is losses by the recent war or by pestI.snce
k szA not informed
Acts, looks, words, steps, form the alpha
bet by which you spell Character.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-09

Money IN your purse viii credit you-wis-
dom in your head adorn you; but both in
your necessity viii serve you.
Let no man presume to give advice to
others that has not first given good counsel
to himself.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-09

"What would you do if mamma should
die ?" she pathetically asked her little three
year-old daughter. Il don't know" re-
piled the infant, with downcast eyes and a
melancholy voice. Il Impose I should have
to thpank myself"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-09

A little girl went timidly into store at
Bellaire, O., the other morning. and asked
the clerk how many shoe-strings she could
get for five cents. "How long do you
want them?" he asked. 81 want them to
keep" was the answer, in tone of slight
surprise.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-09

Years ago, party went from Kentucky
to unearth the remains of Daniel Boone and
his wife, whose bodies had been buried at
Mathasville, about forty miles northwest of
where Boone had lived and died. Fearing
interruption from the citizens of the tlace.
the party hurried back to Kentucky with
what they got, leaving the graves untitled,
and they remain SO to this day. The per-
son who owns the lot where the graves are
is said to be so angry at the loss of the mo-
| hey which he might have made by showing
them il their original state that he is think.
Ing of taking legal measures to recover what
| Is left of their bodies.
AN old man in New Hampshire. who,
| in his youth followed the trade of tailor,
stuck large needle into the leg just abuye
| the knee twenty-five years ago. He never
experienced much trouble, but always
joked about it, saying, he intended yet to
| make his shroud with it. A few weeks
since it came to the surface and was takec
oat entire. But as soon as the atmosphere
| touched it it dropped to pieces, and the old
mans burial robe Will have to be made By
a machine after all.
The first ingredient in conversation Is
truth, the next good sense, the third good,
human, and the fourth Wit