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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-04
The Sedan Of To-day.

Sedan itself is fast altering SO as to be
scarcely recognized by one familiar with
it during the war time. It's fortifica-
tions are undergoing demolition, and
Sedan is now in name, as in effect it
had been ever since the introduction OF
rifled artillery, an open town. Yauban's
bastions and curtains were very massive,
and their wrought-stone faces and ce-
mented backings yield reluctantly; but
they are gradually being effaced, and
Sedan is opening its lungs and stretch
ing itself be- on the trammels that were
won't to enclt Sc it. bitches are being
filed up and boulevards are being laid
out on their site. As one enters from
the railway station through the suburb
Of Torey, formerly enclosed within the
line Of decentralization, he passes stately
streets lined with fine new buildings.
Where the German soldiers used to fish
in the stagnant meats for chessepots,
cuirasses and other spoils of war, solid
earth has taken the place of water, and
long stretches of black woollen cloths
are now drying on the space where once
were ranged, row upon row, the hum
dreds of field guns that the vanquished
had surrendered to the victors. The
gate from under whose archway The
bearer of the flag of truce emerged from
the distracted city is gone SO completely
that the very site of it is not to be idsn-
titled. In the little place inside the
bridge over the Mouse Turenne, in his
coat of verdigris, still stands in that IN
comfortable attitude on the cannon balls,
but the pick-axe Of the destroyer is laid
at the foundation Of the citadel in which
the great gentleman was born. There
is new landlord in the Hotel Croix
dor, man who nonchalantly tells you
The war was before his time here, and he
takes no interest in anything concerning
1t. Either he or his predecessor has
mended the shell-hole that once yawned
in the front of the old house, knocking
two windows almost into one. You can
still trace where the new lime has been
laid on. You turn to look for the traces
of that other shell hole in the front Of
the sous-prefecture in which Napoleon
dictated to Ducrot the order to cease
firing, but that shell-hole, too, has been
repaired, and the sous-prefecture has
been removed to the open side of the
Mouse. The streets swarm with French
soldiers, but soldiers smart, natty and
consequential, in very different case
from the broken miserables who, wolf
fish with hunger, distracted by horror,
mad with conflicting passions thronged
its CHASTITY thoroughfares and Uttered its
blood-stained open spaces on that other
September day. when De Wimplen sui
lenly put his hand to the articles of ca
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-04

it had ever been. Her lovely eyes fairly
sparkled with Joy at seeing him. 90
Charley, what q long separation this has
been, she said, with her head nesting
on his shoulder, sbut we won't part
again, eh?"
"No, dear, if you and baby can come
to Athens with me-" he said, strokine
her hair. "What would you say to let
ting this house for year and going tc
Greece? have a capital engagement
there"
"To Athens?" Lottie echoed, open
ing her eyes wide, but showing no Other
sign of emotion. "Why, dear, of course
I'll 90 if you 90. But L was just going
to tell you that Lord Galliard has beer
assuring me he could get you nice post
in the customs at home"
ST would rather not be indebted for
anything to Lord Galliard," answered
Charley Despard, with frown.
"Why not? But, after all, I do not
like the man either" exclaimed Lottie,
without waiting for an answer to her
first question. swell go to Athens,
then, eh? What fun it Will be Charley!
1t will be like the old times, just after
we were married"
Sand sha'n't you be bit sorry to
leave the scene of your new triumphs
as beautiful Mrs. Despard?" asked her
husband, with q rather uneasy smile.
"Sorry, 0, no! If you only knew,
Charley, how tired I am of this London
life. Anything and anywhere tobe alone
with you again.
A few days later, the journal which
had published Mrs. Despard's portrait
remarked, ruefully, that ''this new star
in the armament of beauty was to be
only shooting star, after all. She had
"set in the east"
"What foolish man that Despard
must be-" observed Lord Galliard, with
annoyance, when he heard the news.
"Well, I don't know that should call
him SO foolish" replied Lady Styre,
who perhaps knew something of that
anonymous letter which Charley Des-
pard had received. Lady Styrre had a
daughter, whom Lord Galliard had first
wooed and afterwards forsaken, when
the beautiful Mrs. Despard had dawned.
His lordship soon afterward took up with
Miss Styrre again, and married her be-
fore the season had ended.
Who knows what his fate and Des-
pard's might have been if he had sue
ceeded in laying the latter under an OBJ
legation to him for post in the customs?
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-04
Mackay and Flood.
"What kind of man is Mackay9

sWhat kind Of man Is Mackay?"
asked passenger.
''Mackay, J. W.? One of the best
men in the world, but his wife is the
boss, and John does just as she says. I
have known her for years. Yes, when
Mrs. Mackay's father used to shave my
father, and her mother did odd jobs Of
washing for the boys. She was not so
slick then, and this western country was
as good as Paris. Last year John and
his wife and daughter and the count
rode with me. They were going to Vir-
ginia City. Now you know John swears
terribly, and he don't care who hears
him. Well, the count can't speak En-.
glish, and his wife acted as interpreter
when John spoke to him. How he did
swear! It was caution, and it amused
us fellows to see his daughter take it so
cool, and tell her husband what he
said. Whether she forgot the cuss words
or not, I do not know, the way the count
laughed I should think not. To tell the
truth, wouldn't bet that Mrs. Mackay
was in love with the old man, or she
would not be SO Internally bossy. I
tell you what she says is law, and that's
the long and short of it. John, when
with his men, smokes his dudheen, and
is as plain as the hardest working man.
His wife. though, is spelling him, and
every time he rides over this line I'll be
burned if he amt crosser."
sHow's Flood?"
''Flood is darnation good man. He
is plain fellow, and treats everybody
white. He would as soon travel with q
poor man as the richest in the the land.
He is not much on style, and no one
would ever think he was one of the
bonanza firm. Me and Jim always
have good time when he rides with
me, and he likes to tell how he used to
work on the night shift"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-04
Timber Growing.

Soft maple seeds must be gathered az
soon as ripe-which will be with ripen-
ing of strawberries May or early
June. Plant Immediately without dry
ing, and they will come up in a short
time, and make about as large growth
as locust. Catalpa seed is very delicate,
lighter than parsnip seed, and on clay
land, if there comes heavy rain, it can
not come through the crust. They bear
transplanting as well as cabbages, and I
would recommend sowing thickly in q
prepared bed, and then transplanting to
nursery rows six inches apart, letting
them stand one year. They will, with
good care, grow three feet high the first
season and very stocky. I think it bet
ter to give catalpas little more room,
and allow only 200 plants to the square
rod, instead 500, as I recommend for
locusts and naples. The earlier the
trees can be planted in spring the bet
ter. but the ground must work dry and
fine. Plow and harrow till in good Or
der. and mark it with the two horse
pillow. making harrow as deep as the
land is plowed. Three hands are needed
in planting, but boy will do for one.
One holds the tree upright, and the
others with light shovels throw the soil
ON the roots and press it with their feet
I think 200 can be planted well in half
day by two men and boy.
Where to plant is an important ques-
ton. As general rule, I would say
plant on land not well suited for cultiva-
ton. A hillside that would soon be
scanned and quilted into barrenness when
cultivated, if set in trees sown with blue
grass, becomes profitable and ornament
al. 1t is a good plan to plant shelter
belts on the north and the west sides of
exposed fields. DR.. Warder made the
statement that on the prairies of the
West, with one-ffth of the land planted
in timber, they would grow as much
wheat as when the whole breadth was
sown. feel satisfied that there are
many exposed fields that would actually
yield more grain if double or triple
row of trees were planted along the west
ern and northern borders. These timber
belts would shelter both stock and crops,
and grow into valuable timber. I am
planting from one to two Thousand trees
each year on my farm, and there is no
crop / raise in which I take so much
pride and pleasure, as my timberbelts.
LCountry Gentleman.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-04
Conversation at Home.

Children hunger perpetually for new
ideas. They will learn pleasure from the
lips of parents what they deem it druid
gerry to study in books; and, even if they
have the misfortune to be deprived Of
many educational advantages, they will
grow up intelligent if they enjoy in
childhood the privilege of listening daily
to the conversation of intelligent people.
A silent home is dull place for young
people, place from which they will es-
cape if they can. How much useful In
formation, on the other hand, is often
given in pleasant conversation. and what
unconscious, but excellent mental train
ing is lively, social argument
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-04
How Postage Stamps are Made.

In printing, steel plates are used, on
which two hundred stamps are engraved.
Two men are kept hard at work covering
them with colored inks, and passing
them to man and girl, who are equally
busy at printing them with large rolling
hand presses. Three of these Little
squads are employed all the time, al
though ten presses can be put into use
in case of necessity. After the small
sheets of paper upon which the two hum
dred stamps are engraved have dried
enough, they are sent into another room
and gummed. The gum used for the
purpose is peculiar composition, made
of the powder Of dried vegetables mixed
with water, which is better than any
other material, for instance gum arabic,
which cracks the paper badly. The
paper is also of peculiar texture, some
what similar to that used for bank-n0tes.
After having been again dried, this time
ON little racks. which are famed BY
steam power for half an hour, they are
put between sheets of pasteboard and
pressed by hydraulic presses, capable OF
applying weight of two thousand tons;
Lie u0Xb ti1IuS u W Cue olAo SIOOeS w
half; each sheet, when cut, contains o
hundred stamps. This is. done BY q
girl with large pair of shears, cutting
BY hand being preferred to that Of ma
chinery. which method would destroy
too many stamps. They are then passed
to other squads, who in as many opera
tons perforate the sheets between the
stamps. Next they are pressed once
more and then packed and labelled and
slowed away in another room, prepa.a-
tory to being put in mail-bags for dis
patching to fill orders. If single stamp
is torn or in any way mutilated, the
whole sheet of one hundred is burned.
About five hundred thousand are burned
every week from this cause. For the
uast twenty years not single sheet has
been lost, such care has been taken IN
counting them. During the progress Of
manufacturing the sheets are counted
eleven times.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-04

peal to the arbitrators, caused a suspen-
sion of the work for some days; but Oh
August Odd Mr.. Hobbs showed the lock
with the hasp raised, and shot the bolt
backwards and forwards in the presence
of DIR. Black and Professor Cowper.
The true key, being afterwards applied,
was found to work as usual, which prov
ed that the works had not been injured
and the lock had been truly picked. The
time actually occupied was spread over
sixteen days, and Mr.. Hobbs was IN the
room with the lock exactly fifty-one
hours.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-04
Flowers.

All lovers of flowers should remember
that one blossom allowed to mature or
go to seed Injuries the plant more than a
dozen new buds. Cut your flowers all
of them before they begin TO fade.
Adorn your rooms with them, put them
on your table; send bouquets to your
friends who have no flowers, or exchange
favors with those who have. You will
find that the more you cut off the more
you will have. All roses, after thew
have ceased to bloom should be cut back.
that the strength of the root may 20 to
form new roots for the next year.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-04

civilian" the druggist remarked to
his clerk. siwhere did this package Of
brown wrapping paper come from?" s1t's
Just sample, sir, sent us by Pulp.
Fibre & Co., but we can't use it; it's too
coarse and heavy for our use." "Ah.
well, replied the honest druggist, edo
not waste it: put it in the window and
sell it for fly paper. Huntington
Hawkeye.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-04

Anything that contributes to the hap
piness and sweet peace of woman is far
reaching for good, noble in design, be-
nefcent in results and worthy Of the
most respectful recognition.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-04
OVER ALL, BLESSED FOREVER.

There is an Eye that never sleeps
Beneath the wing OF night;
There is an Ear that never shuts
When sinks the beams Of light.
There is an Arm that never tires
When human strength gives way;
There is Love that never fails
When earthly loves decay.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-04

ne was SCll1 less SdGlSu0Q WQ6u, Oh TeACQ-
ing his house in Cover Street, he found
that Lottie had just gone out to a dinner
party. It was seven o'clock; but the
season was summer, so Charley, feeling
unreasonably vexed at his wife's absence
for he had not telegraphed to her to say
he was coming), set out ON foot to ram
BILE toward his club. On his way some
more disagreeables confronted him.
In the window of shop in Oxford
Street he saw number of photographs
of Lottie displayed Capital photographs,
they were, too), with the name "Mrs.
Despard" written over them, just as
though that name were already we'll
known to fame. Astonishment rooted
him to the spot for minute, then he
marched into the shop and said sharply
to a young man behind the counter: 81
am Mr.. Despard, and these are portraits
of my wife. Have you Mrs. Despard's
permission to exhibit her likeness in this
fashion,"
81 don't know, I'm sure, sir" an
swered the young man, startled. 81
know Mrs. Despard's photographs are in
trade. We got them from the Colo
dion Company"
s'You must withdraw them from your
window, please. The Collodion Com
pany have no authority from me, and I
shall take their manager to task about it
tomorrow"
He walked out much offended, but he
had already made up his mind what to
do. He repaired to the Office of the
Early Mail, a newspaper for which he
worked good deal while he was in
town, and waiting until the editor had
arrived-toward eleven o'clock-asked
him point-blank whether he could give
him any commission for work abroad.
The foreign manager of the Early Mail
was just then looking out for acorrespon-
dent to go to Athens and write up the
Greek question in all its bearings, 81
am afraid, though, this will keep you
several months away" he said, 'sand I
know you don't much like foreign
journeys"
'This will do capitally for me-" re-
piled Despard. 81 can start the day
after tomorrow" and thereupon hewent
home. His wife had just come back
from her dinner party. He thought he
had never seen herlook so lovely before;
but her greeting was as afectionate as
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1881-11-07

The close confinement of all factory
work gives the operatives pallid faces,
poor appetite, languid, miserable feel
ings, poor blood, inactive liver, kidney
and urinary troubles, and all the ply
sicians and medicines in the world can
not help them. unless they get out of
doors or use Hop Bitters, the purest
and best remedy, especially for such
cases, having abundance of health, sun
shine and rosy cheeks in them. They
cost but trihe. See another column
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1881-11-07
LOSSES BY FIRE.

The October fire record shows that
there were one hundred and thirty
three fires throughout the country in
that month, from no one of which has
the loss been less than $4,000. The
aggregate of 1873 fires foot up 1880
900, with an insurance loss OF 50, $50
900 to So, 100000 Allowing $l,00O,-
900 for losses by fires, at which less
than $4,000 loss was sustained, the
result is total of IS, $50, 900 as an APP.
proximate wastage by the fires in Oc-
tober, which exceeds anything reported
in any October since the great Chicago
fire of 1871. Few of our most expe-
rienced underwriters will hesitate to
admit that both in numbers and costh-
ness the fires of 1881, particularly dur
ing the past four months, have been
quite exceptional and that not many
companies are likely to come out ahead
on the years transactions, and the ma
jority of them will show loss at the
end of the year.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1881-11-07
NATIONAL FINANCES.

The report of the United States
Treasurer, for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1883, has just been published.
II shows the increase during the year,
from every source, as follows:
Increase in customs, Sll ,637, GIL in
ternal revenue, Sll, 255, oil; sales Of
public lands, 81, 1856, 1856, miscellaneous
sources, $3,l77, 7O2; total increase,
1927, 255,6S5, which, added to the net
reduction of SO, $50, O7O in expenditures,
makes an increase in the surplus rev.
enue of 1874, 1856, ISL. The net revenues
were $500, 1872, 800, and the net expen-
ditures $500, The excess of
receipts over payments was 500, $685.
4O4, of which 500, Sz2, 26l was expended
in the redemption of the public debt.
The balance in the Treasury was in
creased $4S, 666, SOB, from 5000, S5l ,32l
at the beginning, to $252, 45S, 925 at the
end of the fiscal year. The amount ex
pended on account of interest and the
premium on the public debt ran dewn
from $9S, 552, S95 in 1880, to SS3, $780,
9S9, a reduction of $l4, 9S2, 905. The
receipts for the fiscal year on account of
the Postoffice Department were $780,
ISL, 664, and the expenditures $3S, 544,-
935. The United States currency out
standing at the close of the year was
1852, $50, 437. During the year ST.
O69,9 in currency has been redeemed,
making the total redemption of curren-
cy, since greenbacks were first issued,
$1,000, l4l,073. United States bonds
amounting to $50, $50, 050 were retired
during the year, and the aggregate of
bonds retired by purchase, conversion
and exchange, from March il, 1869, to
the 3Oth of last June, was 81, 1888, 344, :
500.
Comparing the condition of the
Treasury on September 80, 1881. with
its condition on the same date in 1880,
the most striking changes were the in
crease in gold coin and bullion, and
standard silver dollars. Deducting
gold certificates actually outstanding,
the gold belonging to the Government
on September Both, 1881, was $l60, 522,
l46.
AS the revenues, after paying cost of
collection and deducting losses from de-
falcations, etc., average very nearly a
million dollars day, including Sun
days, while the expenditures, including
Star route, Treasury and other steal
ings, aggregate only $3.50, 7l2, SS7 a
year, it is difficult to see how Secretary
Window is entitled to any great credit
for a proportionate reduction of the
pablo debt, unless the people think
that as a Government officer he de-
serves credit for not stealing the sur
plus left from the revenues, after the
payment of the expenditures.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1881-11-07

The best SALvE in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns, and all kinds of skin eruptiens.
This salve is guaranteed to give perfect
satisfaction in every case or money re-
funded. Price 80 cents per box. For
sale by W. f. STEVENS, the Winnemuc-
ca druggist, and all other druggists.
APPLY
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1881-11-07

A fastidious Peughkeepsie girl has
written to the Presidents of all the
principal colleges in this country to in
Quire whether she should say "mumps
is" or ''mumps are" Some of the
Presidents spoke feelingly of some
mump," while others were tenacious of
zone mumps." 1t is strange that au-
thorities differ on such vital questions.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1881-11-07

During a wedding at Benton, Mon
taaa, few weeks ago, rejected sutton
scattered a pound or so of cayenne pep
Per among the church pews. The staff
was particularly troublesome around
the altar. There was a general weep
ing, wailing and crashing of teeth.
When at the critical moment the
preacher asked the bride whether she
would have the groom, she replied:
'Keer. choo, ker-choo."
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1881-11-07

Colonel Watson b. Smith, Clerk of
the United States Circuit Court, was
found dead last Saturday in Omaha,
lying outside his office door, where he
had been shot by an unknown assassin.
There was great public excitement. He
had been Clerk of the Court for four
teen years and had been chairman of
the committee of citizens to enforce
Slocum's Liquor License law, and was
very prominent in its aggressive work.
Public opinion connects the two things.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1881-11-07
TheDailyI'imes-Star

Eight pages, forty-eight columns. Only six
Dollars Year. ss3 for SIX Months.
~ 80 for Three Months. Has the largest
circulation Of any paper in Cincinnati II il
the best advertising medium and the est paner
tor readers who would know OF the worlds do
ings as promptly as the news can be impaired
Address Tines.star. Cincinnati, o.
OBJ
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1881-11-07
Booths oysters.

Booths Fresh Oysters, by the can or
plate, at the CAPITAL SALOON. OBJ
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1881-11-07

The colored Republicans of San Fran
cisco intend to demand several posi-.
tons under the new city officers.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1881-11-07
NJ A X RE %.

PHARISS-HALL-In Vinnemucca, Noyem-
Der 9 h, by Rev. c. Mckevey, D ID. Phariss
to Miss Nellie d. Hall.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-05-07
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