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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-16
Small COurteSieS.

One of the the editorial writer's of a
leading New York newspaper at one
time prepared series of papers upon the
soil, climate, price of lands, etc., in the
different States, intended to urge emf
grafton from the cities into the country.
He received, in consequence, many let
ters from individuals, asking for par
ticular information as to this or that To-
cality, and returned, as requested, pri-
vate answers.
There were several hundreds of these
letters of advice; it required great care,
labor and time to acquire the accurate
information which they contained; they
were written out of sheer goodwill by
stranger for strangers. Yet out of
the whole number of correspondents
but one was courteous enough to return
civil word of thanks for the informa-
ton obtained.
This is significant hint of the want
of outward politeness among our peo-
pie. Not that Americans are lacking in
the hearty good-nature and kindly feel
ing which is at the bottom of all coru-
tesy. Every one of this editors CORE
spondents would probably have been
ready to give helping hand to him if
he needed, and every one Of them felt
cordially grateful to him. But they did
not sayit.
It is in the numberless little signs
and tokens of good feeling that we are
deficient. Boys should cultivate these
lesser virtues. One of the leading
statesmen of the day said, lately: Il
have mixed with all classes in the coun-
try, and I never met rufian who
would not reply like a gentleman. if
you spoke to him courteously." The
homeliest and humblest man in the
world, with this fine garment of good
breeding, is more royalty attired than a
vulgar Prince.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-16
A Painful Pause.

After reading this, our young sub
scribers must hunt up the constitution
and commit a line or two:
Yesterday morning seven or eighl
old and reliable citizens were holding
down chairs and boxes in Michigan
avenue grocery, unanim ously agree
ing that this was the greatest coun-
try on earth; stranger entered and
said:
Gentlemen, I suppose you are all
familiar with politics.?
We are" they replied in chorus.
@And you all know about the funda-
mental principles of iberty?"
eve do"
Well, I'm glad of it, for I've made q
bet with teller back here as to how
the reading of the constitution begins
One of you just write me down the first
ten words
While he felt for stub of a pencil
every man began scratching his head
and cautiously eying his neighbor
One began muttering:
Now I lay me" and a second
said something about Resolved" and
a third wrote on the top of cracker
box: "On motion, it was voted that
that
There was a great deal Of coughing
and sneezing and nose-blowing, when a
boy came in and said the strangers
horse had run away. He rushed out
and seven faces frightened up and
smiled, and tried not to look too i'm.
portant.-DetrOh Free Press.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-16
The Perspiring Gentleman.

Just before the morning express on
the Kansas Pacific reached Denver 6
man, who afterward registered at Den
yer hotel as J. r. Mathers, leaned back
in his seat and, hopping his face, ex-
claimed: "Oh, how I transpire!" A
gentleman at his side first chuckled and
then replied: "Perspire, you say?'
"No, 1 said transpire, and I mean
transpire," said Mr.. Mathers. "You
are not according to Webster" Well,
I'll just bet you $50 that I am right,
said the perspiring gentleman, as he
reached into his vest pocket after his
roll. The other accepted the wager,
put up his $50, and, copy Of Noah's
little book having been procured, the
definition of the word "transpire was
found to be: "To emit through the ex-
cretories of the skin; to send off in
yapor." The bet was paid.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-16
The AlliteratOrS.

We want to weller in the blood of the
blamed blatherskites who perennially
per-l>t in aiming at capt alliteration's
;ltul aid " in ali articles appearing in
i!'tir particular papers. We want to
a,come all wellwishers of our common
country, of our corrupted common
wealth, and our beloved Boston to our
aid in Selling upon this sign of SEN
satlonalism, and dreadfully drubbing
the drivehng. dreary, and drooling draft,
and driving it from the columns of con-
temporary collocations of composition.
How diretuliy and distressingly dis
gushing to the lover of light OF lofty
literature to be pertinaciously and per-
letnally pestered with some such. SEN
ttnce rs Dear Daniel Drew Dead" or
The Boston Batters Beaten Beauti
fully" or The Fire-Fiend Furious"
or Murky Murder Maneles the Mortal
Names of More Massacred Men, There
is kind of meaningless, musical mad
ness about this literary lunacy that de-
cidedly deceives it's devotees. They
think they are doing doughty deeds
with their queasy, querulous, and quix-
otto quilts; whereas they but mechani-
cally manipulate meaningless maunder-
ings, marrying meretricious mouthing
and mournful mutterings with men
dacious and mediocre matter. Out on
the outre and outrageous outpourings
of these outcasts, these outlaws. Gust
them if you can; Guido them if you
can't.-BOStO7, transcript.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-16
Some Common Medical Terms.

Medicine, like every science, has it's
peculiar terms which seem barbarous
to the public. They secure brevity
and exactness. Some of them, how
ever, have become more or less familiar
to the people at large, and it may be
well, from time to time to explain a
few of them.
An epidemic is disease due to some
widespread cause and prevailing
through large extent of territory.
Thus the influenza kind of fever of
shortrun-h has repeatedly sweptthrough
whole nations, sometimes from one end
of the earth to the other, always from
east to west.
An endemic disease is due to local
causes, and is generally restricted to
the localities in which they originate.
Fever and ague is an endemic disease.
Sometimes an endemic disease becomes
epidemic. Cholera, endemic in India,
occasionally sweeps through the world !;
and yellow fever, endemic in the West
Indies, is conveyed to our Southern
States, where it becomes q desolating
epidemic. Sometimes an imported
epidemic may leave behind it germs
from which the disease may in time
under favcring circumstances burst out
anew.
A disease is said to be sporadic
when cases of it occur here and there
without any connection between them.
An epigootic-pronounced epi-zo-
ot-ic, not epi-zoot-ic- is an epidemic
among domestic animals. The one
which spread among our horses few
years ago, making our cities through
the week stiller than an ordinary Sab
bath, was of the nature of an influenza,
though it largely affected the spinal
cord
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-16
Feeling in OratGrY.

Some one asked Sheridan, the wit
and orator, why he went to hear the
eccentric Rowland Hill preach. II go, y
he replied, because his ideas come red
hot from the heart"
A young preacher who had made a
failure in DR.. Emmons' pulpit COM
planned that somehow he couldn't get
into his subject"
''Do you know the reason why?''
asked the caustic old man. 'It is be-
cause your subject never got into you. y
These two anecdotes will suggest to
the youth who desires to become an
orator two primary lessons. One is
that unless the subject possesses the
speaker, he will fail to make it take
hold of the audience. The second is,
that deep feeling is essential to the
speaker who would produce emotion in
others.
Matthews, the essayist, puts this
thought in pat way: "Che bullets,
according to the hunters superstition,
are sure to hit the mark if they have
first been dipped in the huntsman's
blood"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-16
Daniel Drew.

Mr.. Drew was the son of farmer in
humble circumstances in Putnam
county, N. Y, and was born on the Oath
of July, 1897. The death of his father
in 1872 threw him entirely on his own
resources, and, taking passage on a
Hudson river sloop, he came to New
York and hired out as substitute for a
draft soldier. He served his time with
the army, then took to the occupation of
a drover, soon becoming widely known
as trustworthy, and one of the keenest
judges of cattle in the trade. His sue
cess was so great that in 1929 he
established himself in New York as a
cattle-dealer. He soon began to launch
out, and purchased the first large drove
of cattle that crossed the Alleghanies.
By this and similar operations Mr..
Drew became the leading cattle-dealer
in New York.
In 1884 he began his career as a
steamboat man. In 1889, in conjunction
with Isaac Newton, he established the
celebrated Peoples Line to Albany, he
himself becoming the largest stock
holder. Mr.. Drew drifted into stock
SPECULATION at about the same time with
Als steamboat investments. Then he
reached out for railroad control, and in
1856 was so heavily interested in Erie
that he guaranteed the company's ac-
ceptance for million and half. He
joined Vanderbilt in the Harlem direc-
torate and other enterprises, and,
through subsequent clashing with him,
lost fortune. In 1865 Mr.. Drew gave
Fisk his support, and was afterward re-
paid by Fisk's joining Jay Gould and
well-nigh running Drew. In Erie trans
actions Mr.. Drew still held to the street,
but was badly beaten in the panic OF
1873, and in 1875 withdrew from Wall
street, since which time he has been I'M
engaged in business. He became a
bankrupt in 1875, with liabilities of over
$1,OOO,0OO and an unprovided balance
of three hundred and forty odd thou
sand.
AS a Methodist Mr.. Drew will be
remembered by the Theological Semi
nary he founded at Madison, N. j., and
many liberal donations.-:Neao York
paper.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-16
A Sore Point.

Young America does not understand
why he should be called boy at II,
when his sister, more than a year
younger, is a recognized "young lady"
and treated with Difference by the very
people who combine to snub him. But
he should cherish no jealous feelings
because he finds his sister addressed as
Miss long before he enjoys the satisfac-
tion of being called Mr.. The girls are
not only older in development than he
at the same age, but also gallantry and
a natural regard for her sex lead people
to pay girl who has reached budding
womanhood Difference and consider
alton he must not expect to get at any
age. If he lives he is bound to become
a man in due time, and his business is
to set himself to work 20 see that he
shall be man in other respects than
outward and physical appearance mere
ly. He can get along very well without
the conventional title Of Mr.. until peo-
pie give it to him because they find by
knowing him that he possesses the solid
qualities of manly character. He
does not realize now that it is wonder
full thing to be boy. When he gets
old he can never be young again, while
now he has chance of getting old.
There is no better age than Is. Most
men of so would prefer it to their own
years, and, though crusty and incon-
siderate age may snub youth. it can't
run as fast, or sleep as soundly, or eat
with as much relish, or look forward so
hopefully to the time when it can take
captive the hearts of the young women
who assume airs Of patronage toward
them in their youth.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-16
The Rise of St0ck.JObbing.

Stockholders and stock-jobbing took
their rise in the end of the seventeenth
century, and, like Pallas, they seem to
have sprung forth full-grown from the
brain of their progenitors. The last
few years of that century were indeed
years to be much remembered in the
financial history of this country. In
1892 the loan of Ell 100000 laid the first
foundation of the national debt. In
1894 the first charter was granted to
the Bank of England. The currency of
the country was reformed in 1894, and
to meet the deficiency of coin the first
Exchequer bill was issued in 1896. The
charter of the old East India Company
was renewed in 1893; the charter to the
new East India Company was granted
in 1898. The abortive scheme of the
Land Bank was started in 1897; the i'll
starred Darien expedition was planned
in 1898. Together with these greater
ventures came the shoal of smaller fry
which never fail to follow in the wake
of any great speculative movement. In
1892, England, says Macaulay, witnessed
for the first time those phenomena with
which experience has made us familiar.
Then comes a list of the companies
brought out, described with all the
picturesqueness of detail in which
Macaulay so excels. The list is a
strange one-not so strange, perhaps,
as the list of 1920. and scarcely stranger
than some of the schemes which in the
last ten years have sought admission to-
the London Stock Exchange. In 1892
there was a Copper Company which
proposed to explore the mines CT En-
gland, and held out hope that they
would prove not less valuable than
those of Potosi. In 1873 there was the
Gold Company, Limited" for work
ing an extinct gold mine in Wales.
which actually fingered on in existence
till 1878, though it never obtained
either settlement or quotation from
the Committee of the Stock Exchange.
In the means used for floating these
new schemes, the promoters of the
seventeenth century seem to have been
but little way behind their successors
in the nineteenth. In Shadwells play
of the Volunteers; or, The Stock-job-
bers," brought out in 1892, all doubts
as to whether it be godly or not to hold
shares in company for bringing over
Chinese rope-dancers are set at rest by
the reflection that the shares will sell
well, and then the holders need not
care whether the dancers come over or
Establishments MdO1zine.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-16
PITH AND POINT
WHAT was it a circular saw ?

AN aurist is an ear-responsible man.
INN-DEPENDENT people-Hotel board
ers.
SPREAD yourself" as the bread re-
marked to the butter.
IT is better to fall in with friend
than TO fall out with an adversary.
A LITTLE girl in Ithaca described an
elephant as the thing which kicks up
with it's nose"
The morning sun seen through a
dense fog looks like brass knob on
the gates of heaven.-Chicago Irib-
at71e.
A GLAss-BLowER has recently died at
the age of ITO years. His great age is
another proof of the truth of the blew
glass theory.
TRUTH is stranger than fiction. A
man may know that he is liar, and yet
he'll feel decidedly strange when he is
called one.
SCENE ecitation-r in natural
history. Instructor" Mr.. x, have
you ever put your head down on any
ones breast and listened to the heart
beats as Huxley describes them?" Mr..
X. (blushing)-" Yes, sir"
The Wane of the Honeymoon
Dearest of Loves" My angel, we
ought tc be thinking of getting back to
town." Dearest OF Pets" AS soon as
ever you like, dearest, to be done with
this weary incoming and spooning." y
FAN.
"CoME out into the garden, love,
Where perfume fills the air;
I'll gather the fairest blossoms, love,
To deck your sunny hair"
Il ooh, no, dear George" ishe sadly sighed,
81 can't enjoy such lsses;
Ma says must stay in the house
And wash the supper Dishes"
-BuGa1o Times.
"LET's see, they raise some wheat in
Minnesota, don't they?" Raise
wheat! Who raises wheat? No, sir
decidedly no, sir. It raises itself
Why, if we undertook to cultivate
wheat in that State it would run us out
There wouldn't be any place to put ou1
houses" "But I've been told that grass
hoppers take great deal of it. GOT
course they do. If they didn't don't
know what we would do. The cussed
stuff would run all over the State and
drive us out-choke us up. Those
grasshoppers were God-send, only
there amt half enough Of 'em." els
that wheat nice and plump?' plump!
Well, I don't know what you call
plump wheat, but there are seventeen
in our family, including servants, and
when we want bread we just go out
and fetch in a kernel of wheat and
bake it," "Do you ever soak it in water
frst?" cob, no, that wouldn't do; il
would swell little, and then we
couldn't get it in our range oven" p
SchOhGrie Republican.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-16
THE END OF THE WORLD.
BY CARRIE V. SHAW.

If such thing could be that the sad winds low
monotone
am hearing for the last time as I'm sitting here
If this great world should suddenly stand still and
cold as stone,
fronting the Unknown!
In the passion of the anguish of the moment drear
aud lone,
Should find the icy barrier that pride has raised
down-thrown?
Would the deep, despairing bitterness that ungeo
the dark years flown
Fade away when we were standing on the brink OF
time alone?
Oh! 1 Journey me through darksome swamps
where cypress leaves lie strown;
could cross black CULTS, though utting rocks left
feet all bleeding, torn;
Though falling timbers blocked my way, DER
mounds of crumbling stone
could Journey through the darkness, meath the
solemn skies, alone.
For the sake of the dear dream I dreamed, ere
wisdom's glass had shown
ALI vanity and weakness, and the heart had bitter
grown;
For that sweet Illusions sake could forget the
sad years flown,
And Misunderstanding, dying-till found him, all
alone.
Oh! them could forget the cruel bond that pride
has grown?
With the night of death around us and his dear
face near my own,
Standing there amidst the ruins, where pale, weird
lights, Pickering, shone,
Then need not fear to tell him how worshiped
him alone.
Shall tell him how my nature, strange, the world
had never known?
And, misjudged by those loved, how might
stand or fall alone;
That was not cold and naughty, that reaped not
as had Sown,
But that was very weary and would smile death
welcome home?
Or, shall 1 wait, as I have waited all my life
alone,
With the darkness of the shadows of deaths orgies
round me thrown,
With the Dead Sea fruit cherished once to taste
less ashes grown?
Shall wait, as L have waited all my weary life
alone
With no one near in all the throng that can call
my own;
With the wreck of falling worlds about my helpless
feet thick strown:
The hearts wild tumult blending the chill winds
surge and moan?
I shall watch and wait, as have watched and wait
ed, all alone.
I shall note with lonely eyes the changeless love
to others shown,
While SILVER with the death-damp OF the night
dews, all alone
While I feel my brow grow colder than the slab Of
On which lean awaiting there the last great call
alone.
I shall note the tears OF others, but my hapless
tears have flown
They were shed DER those dear forms beneath this
slab of marble stone.
Methinks 1 could not weep through all Death;
mysteries now made known
have wept so much-while waiting through these
dreary years alone.
shall stand alone reclining gainst this piece Of
marble stone,
With the laundering, roaring, rushing of Deaths
pillows nearer borne.
There amidst dissolving nature, with the fina
bugle blown,
shall die as 1 have Northumberland I'M
known, alone.
SCHELL CITY, Mo.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-16
Etiquette OF Letter.Writing.

As rule every letter, unless insult
ing in it's character, requires an answer.
To neglect to answer a letter, when
written to, is as uncivil as to neglect to
reply when spoken to.
In the reply acknowledge first the
receipt of the letter, mentioning its
date, and afterward consider all the
points requiring attention.
If the letter is to be very brief, com
mence sufficiently far from the top OF
the page to give a nearly-equal amount
of blank paper at the bottom of the
sheet when the letter is ended.
Should the matter in the letter con
tinue beyond the first page, it is well
to commence little above the middle
of the sheet, extending as far as
necessary on the other pages.
It is thought impolite to use q half
sheet of paper in formal letters. AS a
matter of economy and convenience FOR
business purposes, however, it is GUS
tomary to have the card of the bust
ness man printed at the top of the
sheet, and a single leaf is used.
In writing letter, the answer to
which is of more benefit 10 yourself
than the person to whom you write,
inclose postage stamp for the reply.
Letters should be as free from
erasures, interlineations blots and post
scripts as possible. It is decidedly
better to copy the letter than to have
these appear.
A letter of introduction or recon-
mendation should never be sealed, as
the bearer to whom it is given ought to
know the contents. Manual
Social and Business Forms.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-16
Slain by Her Defender.

During the wars of William of Or
ange, it was usual, at the end of the
campaign, for beth armies to retire into
winter quarters, and numbers got leave
of absence to go home and see their
friends. Among others who availed
themselves of this privilege was young
Highland officer whose relations lived
in the upper parts of Perthshire. He
visited about in that district, and enter
tanned his friends by talking of the bat
ties in which he had fought, and the
wonderful events he had witnessed;
and everywhere met with the most cor
dial reception. He was at last invited
to the house of a gentleman who had
an only daughter, whose beauty was the
universal theme of admiration. He
there, as usual, recited his martial feats,
till, like Othello, he made an impression
on the young lady, which the gallant
soldier soon perceived, and he con-
trived to settle plan with her for their
clipping together at midnight. They
got off unperceived, and, having trav-
eled several miles, they at last came to
an inn, where they thought they might
refresh themselves in safety. The en-
ragged father, however, as soon as he
had discovered his daughters flight,
assembled men and pursued them with
such speed and eagerness that lie over
took them soon after they got into the
inn. The lover, though he had nobody
to support him, yet was determined not
to yield up his mistress, and, being well
armed and an excellent swordsman, he
resolved to resist any attack made upon
him. When the party pursuing entered
the inn, his mistress ran for protection
behind him; but. as he was preparing
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-16
Cruel Invention.

A Berlin genius has invented an in
strument for turning over the leaves OF
music. The Berlin man is a presump-
tuous meddler. If his machine should
come into general use, what disposition
could be made of the average young
man in high shirt collar and hair parted
in the middle, who at evening social
gatherings stands up at the end of the
piano and turns over the music for the
lady performer? He appears fit for no
other purpose under the sun.-Norris-
torn Herald.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-16
The Festive Peanut.

The woolly skin of the peach, the
blushing colors of the apple, the flavor
of the pear, the juice of the watermelon,
all do fade as a leaf; but the peanut
holds its own forever; the transcend
entail combination of fruit, berry and
vegetable, king of the gallery, par ex-
cellence on the half shell, and the
greatest promoter of matrimony in the
wide world.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-16

to give deadly stroke, the point of the
sword accidentally struck her violent
blow, and she instantly expired at his
feet. Upon seeing what had happened,
he Immediately surrendered himself,
saying, "That he did not wish to live,
his earthly pleasure being gone" He
was executed the next day.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-16
Fading Out.

A gentleman in conversation with
Jere Black said: ''The lines between
irreligion and the formerly accepted
Christianity are fading out" eyes, :"
answered the great jurist, "and the nice
distinctions between right and wrong
are fading out with them"