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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-02
The Shirt that Opened Behind.

A man in Greenfield, whom we will call
William. got up the other morning and pro-
ceeded to put on shirt which his wife had
just made for him, after one of the latest
patterns. As she stood at the mirror curl
ing her hair, she heard suppressed sound,
halfway between groan and an oath, and
turning round, said, laughing, "Why, my
dearl'
''Hush up - he CALCULATED. ''Never let o
woman attempt to fit shirt; she can't do
it; it is one of the impossibilities.
''But, William depreeatingly.
Don't you tai4-let me talk. Do you
think am going down town in this rig? A
pretty disposition you've got; just because
l happened to find little fault last week
with your ironing, you must go and make
me shirt without bosom Such conduct,
madame, is objectionable. No, 1 won't
hear word. When a starched shirt front
is the only finery that man INDUCES in, is
he not excusable for being particular in re-
gard to that, should like to know? And
this thing sets like the deuce. Look how
baggy it is here in front, and it feels be-
hind as if there was board bound across
me"-walking up and looking in the glass,
hitching up first one shoulder and then the
other, after the indescribable manner of
trying new garment. His wife dared not
speak, but bringing good-sized mirror
from the next room, she held it up behind
him for moment; and perceivins by his
chopfallen expression that he saw the point
and the front, she ran down stairs to settle
the coffee, and see that Bridget had set the
table economically. As William walked
down to his Office that morning he said to the
first friend that he met, 81 tell you, Tom
that little wife of mine is born genius.
Look at this shirt, now; she cuteand made
it all herself. Do you see, it's open behind ;
no COMPOUNDED button-holes to bother fel-
low. Just send your wife up for the pat
term" And it was by the way of Tom g
wife that Lizzie first knew that William was
pleased with his shirts.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-02
BREAKFAST IN GERMANY.

There is no family breakfast.table as with
US, where sons and daughters gather rouno
the board, letters are received and read,
newspapers scanned, and the great affairs
of the world as made known by the tele-
gram impaired and commented upon. We
look in vain for the damask table-cloth,
the steaming urn, the symmetrical ar
rangements of plate and china, that vel
come us in the middle-class English house,
hold. No trim girls in bright cotton or
well-cut homespun gowns; no young men,
whose fresh faces tell of tubs and Turkish
towels, are here to greet us. There may be
linen cloth upon the table (though even
this detail is far from general), and there
will be cofee-pot. and milking, and
sugar-basin, set down. anyhow anywhere !;
basket, either of wicker of Japan, piled
up with fresh Semmelen, perhaps a stray
plate or two; disorderly group of cups
Of different colors and designs; no butter !;
no knives and forks; possibly plate with
few milk.rolls, Of somewhat finer -four
than the ordinary; and the breakfast
eauipage is complete. The first conner (if
lady, in dressing.gown and cap; if man,
in Schlqfrock and PantoGe1n) will help her or
himself to coffee and rolls, probably eating
and drinking like peripatetic philosophers,
for there is no inducement to sit down and
make yourself comfortable IF it be win
ter.time, the coffee-pot and milking will
be placed on the stove instead of on the
table; and the next conner will 60 through
the same formula of solitary feeding, de-
parting, as the case may be, for the en-
joyment of the post-prandial cigar, or to
supplement the somewhat scantily repre-
sented mysteries of the toilet The last
conner will enjoy the dregs Of the coffee
pot and the drains Of the milking on an
oilcloth cover or crumpled table-cloth, slop-
ped with the surplusage of successive cof-
fee-cups, and besprinkled with the crumbs
Of consumed rolls.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-02
A Horrible Affair.

San Francisco has heretofore pointed with
pride to her death rate, having next to
Zurich and Geneva, the lowest of any city.
This idol of her heart will be most rudely
shattered unless some means are devised to
stop the ever-recurring tragedies, the de-
tails of which are so sickening and repul-
sive. A French writer lately advanced the
theory that murders and suicides are the re-
suit of climatic influences. If this be true
it would be interesting to know the state of
the barometer and the direction of the wind
currents at San Francisco. Most certainly
it is an i'll wind for the lawyers, for the muir
fderers invariably commit suicide, but that
the undertakes are basking in the balmy
breezes of prosperity there can be no doubt.
The facts of the last tragedy, in brief, are as
follows Two young men, warm personal
friends, one named Elmer Caldwell and the
other Charles Maxey, retired to their room
about eleven o'clock. They were both in
high spirits, and their laughing was so bois-
ferrous and loud as to provoke remonstrance
from their landlady. About six o'clock the
next morning the landlady was awakened
by one of the boarders, who said that some
one was i'll, as groans were audible all over
the house. It was soon ascertained that the
sounds came from the room occupied by the
young men. No answer being made to the
repeated calls for admission, the door was
forced and bloody scene disclosed. Lying
on the bed, with his face TO the wall, was
the dead body of Caldwell, his blood and
brains oozing from CHASTITY wound over
the right temple. A short distance from
the bed lay Maxey, jagged wound in the
left side marking the place where the shot
had taken effect, while about FIVE feet from
him was the instrument with which the
deed was committed-a fve-shooter In
moment of consciousness Maxey said that
Caldwell had shot him. A strange feature
in the case is that no shots were heard by
any of the boarders.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-02
WHAT ILLINOIS WIVES CAN DO.

The married women of Illinois acquired
by the law of 1874 the right to do almos,
everything. They can sue and be sued In
their own names. They embossed priv.
lege-sue their own particular tyrants
When a husband deserts his wife, the latter
has the custody of her children. If the
husband stays out of the State a year and
does nothing to support the wife during
that time, or if he is Imprisoned in the
penitentiary. the wife can, upon obtaining
an order from a court of record, manage
his property absolutely. The wife is not
at all liable for the husbands debts in
CURED before marriage, and only in excep-
ional circumstances for those incurred
afterward. She can manage any business
independently, except in case Of part
nership, which she cannot enter without
her husbands consent. A wife's earnings
cannot be touched by her husband or his
creditors. A married woman can ac-
quire, possess, and sell real and personal
property as freely as a married man can.
This list of abilities is expected to be large
" increased the present year-so as to
include suffrage and other incidentals.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-02
WEDDINGS IN BORNEO.

On the wedding day the bride and BRIDE
groom are brought from opposite ends Of
the village to the spot where the ceremony
is to be performed. They are made to sit
on two bars of iron, that blessings as last
ing, and health as vigorous, may attend
the pair. A cigar and betul leaf, pre-
pared with the areca nut, are next put in
to the hands Of the bride and bridegroom.
One of the priests then waves two fowls over
the heads of the couple, and in long adj
dress to the Supreme Being calls down
blessings upon the pair, and implores that
peace and happiness may attend the union.
After the heads of the afianced have been
knocked against each other three or four
times, the bridegroom puts the prepared
leaf and cigar into the mouth of the bride.
while she does the same to him, whom sine
thus acknowledges as her husband.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-02
CURE FOR HYDRoPHoB1A.

The recipe is that of H. Caesar, Fench
physician: Take two tablespoonfuls Of
fresh chloride Of lime, mix it with half a
pint Of water, and with this wash keep the
wound constantly bathed and frequently
renewed. The clorine gas possesses the
power Of decomposing this tremendous poi
son, and renders mild and harmless that
venom against whose resistless attack the
artillery of medical science has been SO
long directed in vain. It is necessary to
add that this wash should be applied as
soon as possible after the anfiction of the
bite. The following are the results of this
treatment: From 1910 to 1924, the num-
Der Of persons admitted into Breslau Hos.
pital were 1874, Of whom only two died !;
from 1883 to 1924, there were admitted in
to the hospital at Zurich 22s persons Bit
ten by different animals (ls2 by dogs) Of
whom only four died.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-02
A CURE FOR LUCK-JAW.

In the course of the Cantor lectures, re-
Gently delivered before the British Society
of Arts by DR.. Benjamin Richardson, the
following deeply important remarks were
made upon nitrite Of Amyl: One of these
specimens, mean the nitric of Amyl, has
within these last few years obtained a re-
markable Importance, owing to its extra
ordinary action upon the body. A distia-
guished chemist, Professor Guthrie, while
disabling over nitric of amyl from amyic
alcohol, observed that the vapor, when
inhaled, quickened his circulation, and
made him feel as if he had been running.
There was flushing of his face, rapid action
of his heart, and breathlessness. In 1861
62 I made careful and prolonged study of
the action of this singular body, and dis
covered that it produced its effect by caus-
ing an extreme relaxation, first of the
blood vessels, and afterward of the muscu-
lar tibres of the body. To such an extent
did this agent thus relax, / found it would
even overcome the tetanic spasm produced
by strychnia, and having tilss discovered
its action, ventured to prop1se its use for
removing the spasm in some Of the ex-
tremest spasmodic diseases. The results
have more than realized my expectations.
Under the influence Of this agent, one Of
the most agonizing of known human mala-
dies, called angina pectoris, has been
brought under such control that the par
oxysms have been regularly prevented, and
in one instance, at least, altogether re-
moved. Even tetanus, or lock-jaw, has
been subdued by it, and in two instances,
of an extreme kind, so effectively as to
warrant the credit of what may be truly
called cure.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-02
An Incident.

Unarmed and unattended walks the Car,
Through Moscow"s busy street one Winter day
The crowd uncover as his face they see,
"God greet the Carl" they say.
Along his path there moveda funeral,
Gray spectacle of poverty and woe.
A wretched sledge dragged by one weary man,
Slowly across the snow.
And on the sledge, blown by the Winter wind,
Lay poor coffin, very rude and bare,
And he who drew it bent before his load,
With dull and sullen air.
The Emperor stopped and beckoned 10 the man
"Who is't thou Dearest to the grave? " he said.
sony soldier sire !" the short reply.
SONY soldier, dead"
''Only a soldier, musing, said the Gear;
SONY Russian, who was poor and brave.
Move on. follow. Such a one gees not
Tnhonored to his grave"
Hebent his head, and silently raised his cap;
The Gar of All the Russias, pacing slow.
Following the coffin, ..as again it went
Slowly across the snow.
The passers of the street, all wondering,
Looked on that sight, then followed silently
Peasant and Prince, and artisan and clerk,
All in one company.
Stn, as they went, the crowd grew ever more,
TIL thousands stood around the friendless grave
Led by that.princely heart, who, royal, true,
Honored the poor and brave.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-02
Combats on the Ocean.

Among the extraordinary spectacles some
times witnessed by those who Ego down to
the sea in Ships" none are more impressive
than combat for the supremacy between
the monsters of the deep. The battles of the
sword6sh and whale, are described as
Homeric in grandeur.
The swordfsh go in schools like whales,
and the attacks are regular sea fights.
When the two troops meet, as soon as the
swordfish have betrayed their presence by a
| few bounds in the air, the whales draw to-
gether and close up their ranks. The sword
fish always endeavors to take the whale in
the flank, either because its cruel instinct
has revealed to it the defect in the carcass
for there exists near the brachial fms of the
whale, a spot where wounds are mortal-or
because the flank presents wider surface to
its blows.
The swordfsh recoils to secure greater
impetus. If the movement escapes the
keen eye of his adversary, the whale is lost,
for it receives the blow of the enemy, and
dies almost instantly. But if the whale per-
ceives the swordfsh at the instant of the
rush, by a spontaneous bound it springs
clear of the water its entire length, and falls
on its flank with crash that resounds for
many leagues, and whitens the sea with
boiling foam. The gigantic animal has only
its tail for defence. It tries to strike its
enemy and finishes him at single blow.
But if the active swordfsh avoid the fatal
tail, the battle becomes more terrible. The
aggressor springs from the water in his turn:
falls upon the whale and attempts, not to
pierce, but to saw it with the teeth that gar
nish its weapon. The sea is stained with
blood; the fury of the whale is boundless.
The swordfsh harnesses him, strikes him on
every side, kills and flies to other victories.
Often the swordfsh has not time to avoid
the tail of the whale, and contents itself
with presenting its sharp saw to the flank
of the gigantic animal which is about to
crush it. 1t then dies like Maccabsesus,
smothered beneath the weight of the ele-
plant of the ocean. Finally the whale gives
Few last bounds into the air, dragging its
assassin = it fight, and perishes as it kills
the monster of which it was the victim.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-02
THE CHINAMAN,S NOAH.

It is believed that Fohi, the first King
Of China, is identical with Noah. The
Chinese themselves claim that Fohi has no
father; and Noah, although subsequent
to the food the great progenitor of the race
was himself at that time fatherless. The
mother Of Fohi is said to have borne him
encompassed with rainbow-an evident
allusion to the bow Of promise revealed to
Noah as the sign Of Gods covenant.
Fohi is represented to have reared seven
kinds or creatures, which he sacrificed to
the Great Supreme. Noah also took into
ark clean beasts and fowls by sevens, which
he offered to the God of heaven as offer
ings; Fohi is represented as drawing off
the waters which had deluged the earth,
thus identifying him with the fool.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-02
CIRCAsSIAN STORY OF A KISS.

A man was walking along one road, and
united into one, and reaching the point OF
junction at the same time, they walked on
together. The man was carrying large
iron kettle on his back; in one hand he held
the legs of live chicken; in the other
cane; and he was leading q goat They
neared dark ravine. Said the woman:
81 am afraid to 60 through that ravine with
you; it is lonely place, and you might
overpower me and kiss me by force" Said
the man: "How can l possibly overpower
you and kiss you by force, when have this
great iron kettle on my back, cane in one
hand, live chicken in the other, and am
leading this goat? might as well be tied
hand and foot" Yes" replied the wo.
man. But if you should stick your cane
in the ground and tie your goat to it, and
turn the kettle bottom-side up and put the
chicken under it, then you might wickedly
kiss me in spite of my resistance" "Suc-
cess to thy ingenuity, woman! p" said the
rejoicing man to himself. ~ should never
have thought of this or similar expedients."
And when they came to the ravine, he stuck
his cane into the ground and tied the goat
to it, gave the chicken to the woman, say.
ing: "Hold it while cut some grass for the
goat" and then-so runs the legend-low.
ering the kettle from his shoulders, he put
the fowl under it, and wickedly kissed the
woman, as she was afraid he would. -CAam-
6erS'S Journal.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-02
A Central Kentucky Mystery.

Tine beautiful little cemetery of which
Georgetown boasts is situated upon the sum-
NIT of hill overlooking the town. 1t is
carefully tended and guarded by a keeper,
who resides in sombre-looking cottage at
the main entrance to the cemetery. The
grounds are well laid out, the trees well
placed, the walks well kept. and the monu-
ments scattered in picturesque profusion.
Somewhere near the central spot in this
city of the dead rises massive pile dedica-
ted to the memory of one of Scott county's
wealthiest men, whose remains lie buried
beneath.
Or tho day of which We speak the gar
dener went out to his daily labor, and in his
rounds came to where the monument stood.
He locked at the place where the name and
age of the deceased stood blazoned forth. It
was not there. He rubbed his eyes and
looked again. Still the engraven letters did
not make their appearance. He began to
doubt the evidence of his senses, and going
up to the marble, he passed his hand along
its smooth surface in search of the letters,
with the same result as met his previous ex-
animation. Imperfect amazement he started
for while, then, actuated by some strange
impulse, he took position upon the oppo-
site side of the monument, when 10 and be-
hold, there stood the letters as bright and
clear as ever. There was but one inference
from this, either the grounds had changed
their shape in the night, which was not
likely, or the huge monument had been
moved around. But how this was done was
the mystery, for there we're no footprints on
the soft, green turf, or any signs of work
men having been employed at that spot dur
ing the night, and to accomplish what had
been done tremendous force would have to
be brought to bear. And so it appeared a
perfect mystery how the fact was accom-
plished. The man carried the news to town.
The curious at once rushed to the scene,
and puzzled themselves as to how the mys-
terry could have been wrought. Hundreds
of people visit the place daily, and the mat
ter is as great a puzzle as ever.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-02
THE CONFEDERATE TREASURES.

A writer in the Atlanta Constitution
tells curious story concerning the fate Of
the money in the hands Of Davis and the
high officials of the Confederacy after they
left Richmond. The fugitives halted in
Georgia, near the Savannah River, and it
was resolved to make an equal division Of
the amount in the treasury, something over
100000 in gold and silver, which gave to
each officer and man $2825. But there
had also been carried off from Richmond
100000 Of funds belonging to the Vir-
ginia Bank, and this was an immense
temptation to the defeated and desperate
soldiers. It was in charge of some bank
officials, and was stored for a few days at
Washington, Wilkes County, in Georgia.
After the country had become somewhat
quiet, the officials started to return North
with the money. Some of the ex-Confed-
crates who were idling around the neigh
borhood heard of the wealth and laid their
plans to capture it. About dozen of
them, dressed in Federal uniforms, rode up
to the small guard accompanying the
treasure, and demanded its surrender in
the name of the United States Government,
claiming to be acting under orders from
General Stoneman. It was handed over to
them and they made off with it. But one
of the party was tempted to display some
of the money in a town near by, and as the
fact of the robbery had become known, the
possessor of such rare thing as gold OF
silver at that time was Immediately sus-
pected of being in the transaction. When
arrested, he confessed and disclosed the
names of the whole party. The create,
part of the money was recovered, but two
or three of the men could never be found
and were supposed tie have gotten off sue
cessfully with their share of the plumber.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-02

and he had been drifting for ten of them
upon the Atlantic.
Then it was that the Carrie Long came
across his path and picked him up, as al
ready stated, and by judicious nursing
brought him around until he was himself
again.
When Captain Park arrived at Matanzas,
francesca became very much frightened
over the presence and questions of the Gus
toms officers.
The American captain gave truthful ac-
count of the rescue of the fellow, and the
story as it had been gathered from his lips.
The Brazilian consul thereupon demanded
that he should be delivered to the local au-
thorities, and kept in jail until his case
could be communicated to the Brazilian au-
thorties.
But the sturdy American captain said:
"I incline to think not He has earned
bis liberty after such heroic efforts, and he
shall have it."
"But I insist that you comply with my
request, which is right and just"
"You can insist all you choose" said the
captain. 81 was the means of saving him
from death, and I shall not undo my work
by helping to put him into prison for it."
The Brazilian consul was impolitic enough
to intimate something about compelling the
captain to do as he had been requested.
The response of the American sailor to
this ended the interview.
"You can't have him." he said. 'Take
him from beneath that, if you dare!"
As he uttered the hot words, he pointed
to the Stars and Stripes, and the consul trou-
bled him no further
On board the raft, at the time of the res
cue of the estray, was found a document re-
lating to the case of one of the negroes who
was devoured by sharks.
This man was convicted of robbery, and
the Brazilian penal code requires the pay
ment to the government of twenty per cent
of the amount stolen, on behalf of any con-
Wet condemned for robbery, before he can
be released, whatever the term of his SEN
tence.
The petitioner in the case alluded to was
not informed Of the amount he was expected
to pay, and he accordingly got fellow-con-
vict to write for him asking the particulars
The document was the letter, which was
signed by Antonio Bezerro de Silva. On
the back was the reply of the clerk of the
jury, giving the information desired, dated
Cayenne, July II, 1877, and signed with
the name Francisco Ribero Costa Viscon-
cellos.
The Brazilian consulate atNew York COM
municated with Captain Park concerning the
negro convict that he had picked up at sea,
and the consul showed great interest in the
case. He expressed himself as ready to Sc
cure the means of Francesco's return to Bra
I'll, should he desire to go; but there was no
way by which the fellow could be compelled
to return, if he preferred to stay
We have not ascertained what he did,
but we incline to the opinion that he con-
cluded not to return to the country, after
risking and suffering SO much to get away
from it.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-02
STRANGE STORY OF FORGOTTEN
WEALTH.

A remarkable instance Of lapse of men,
DRY was related at Dartmouth (Eng.) a
short time ago. A bed-ridden old woman
who had long been in receipt of outdoor
relief, had lived in an extremely INDECENT
and miserable condition, paying only cd.
a week for the attendance of woman to
wait on her. This woman had the Curl
osity to unlock and search box in the
old woman's room, and there found bag
containing hundred sovereigns. A gem
tleman who had befriended the invalid was
called in, and she declared her utter for
getfulness that any money was in her
room. The relieving officer, however, has
laid claim to the hoard of gold with view
to the repayment to the guardians of the
sum expended on the old woman's main
tenance. She formerly kept cider
shop.