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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-01
A Yankee in England.

At Liverpool, when landed, I want
ed to get on to Cardiff, so asked my
way of a gentleman in the street, and he
SAYS, "by Birkenhead;" but another
comes up and he says, "That track is
blocked with snow," and he gives me
another direction, and in civil, nice
way. I shall have funny things to tell
them home. I see notice about tickets,
and I asked for one to Cardiff, and he
says, "It's a pound and two" I gave
him two, and he hands me the change.
When I got into the depot says,
{" Where's the train % "Here," says .
sort of policeman, pointing to row of
things like second hand collins. ''The
cars, I mean" answers, and he says,
"Them's them" I says, (Which for
Cardiff" And he says, "This are you
booked?" And I says emo" "Then
you can't go in unless you're booked"
he says and began to think that I had
neglected something in the way Of pa
pers, and would have to go to the Amer
lean Consul about it. That's very
awkward" says. 1T would be very
awkward for you if you got in and went
on without being booked" he answered
in way that made mefeel timid and I
began to think of the high-handed style
Britishers have of dealing with foreign
ers, and so I thought would make a
clean breast of the affair, and tell him
that I did not know what he meant
and he says, "Come this way and I'll
show you" which, he being a big fellow
and me little one. and stranger,
rather increased my trepidation. and the
weather so bad and all but he only took
me to the place where I had bought my
ticket, and he says, "There, that's
the booking Office" and I says,
"What shall I do ?" why, take your
ticket" he says; and I answered that I
had bought ticket. "Why didn't you
say so before ?" and he says, 81 did ask
you if you was booked and you said
mo ;'"and then I laughed, and told
him was an American and didn't IN
derstand, and then he laughed, and we
had drink.-COr. NeW York Times.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-01
How to Keep Warm.

The most sensible way Of meeting a
cold spell is to make the system stove
of itself, and this may be done by eating
largely of highly carbonaceous food. In
cold weather you ought to eat plenty of
fat food-fat ham, pork and beans, ba-
con, fat beef, pork sausages- in fact, all
manner of greasy aliment may be in.
dulged in when the mercury has sunk
into the basement of the thermometer.
Food of this kind is slowly burned in the
interior economy Of the eater, but the
animal heat evoked is greater than that
produced by any other kind Of animal
food. Wear plenty of clothing, not
necessarily in heavy outer wraps, which
only keep off the wind, as in garments
which cling closely to your skin and re-
tain your animal heat-the heat You are
making in your personal stove. Cloth
ing by itself does not warm, but by its
non-conducting power prevents. animal
heat from passing away from the body
too rapidly, or the outside temperature
from reaching the body. Then, as to
sleeping arrangements. Lots of people
I'LL the stoves in their chambers to red
holiness, till the air is almost suffocating.
This is, great mistake. The room
should be no warmer than usual but
extra bed covering should be used. He
who goes to bed with an easy conscience,
just enough food in his stomach to
keep the gastric juice out Of mischief,
his room not warmer than 70 degrees,
and enough clothes on him to keep the
animal heat from passing off too rap.
idly, will sleep the sleep Of the just
whose notes are provided for.-Er-
ch111ne
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-01
American Sugar.

The time is approaching very evident
" when the manufacture of sugar in this
republic will reach sufficient magnitude
to supply the whole country. Our terri
tory Is so extensive and the temperature
so varied that there is scarcely anything
consumed by man that it will not fur
nish, when the intricacies Of the art Of
producing it is once sufficiently well I'M
3erstood. We do not say that the sugar
supply will come from beets, though to
some extent, and very large extent, it
may, and we hope will But more like
it will be the product Of sorghum and
the amber cane, which would seem to be
less costly in the way Of labor. Sugar
from beets can undoubtedly be made Of
as excellent quality as any produced
from any other material, but we fear not
so cheaply. Labor is the great draw
back; this being so much more econom-
ically supplied In France and Germany
than in the United States, readily ac-
counts for the success of beet-sugar
making there; and it seems that it will
always continue to be so, at least SO
long as this discrepancy in the price of
labor exists. Should we be able, how
ever, to counterbalance this by increased
product OF the beet per acre, or by inn
proved machinery, or from any other
cause not now developed, the aspect of
things may be changed. The factory in
Delaware Is experimenting perhaps more
intelligently tnan any other that has
been established in this country, and the
prospect is more encouraging than any
other. Should it be finally successful,
it will of course lead the way to the
establishment of others, and hence sup
ply want in the United States so great
and commanding as to give employment
to labor and capital to an enormous ex-
tent. Germantown Telegraph.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-01
Newspaper Reporters.

1t is great mistake to suppose
that all that is required TO make a
good reporter is a liberal education.
A reporters position is one requir-
ing tact, judgment, and thorough
knowledge of the world; and the raw
college graduate can no more hold
satisfactorily a reporters position
than reporter can satisfactorily fill
professor chair.
Reporters are born - not made.
They have become class as indispen-
sible to the demands of modern civil
ization as the locomotive or the cleo
trio telegraph; and if, while the tired
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-01
Am ASTRONOMERS 0niniou.

The celebrated English astronomer,
Richard A. Proctor, has been giving an
opinion which, if based on correct con-
illusions, is startling one in reference
to the comet of 1850. In his view. trou-
bic of serious character to our earth
impends. It is alleged that the comets
return has been reduced from 175 to
thirty-seven years, and that it will APP
pear again in about seventeen years,
with improbability of being absorbed by
the sun. It is minated that Sir Isaac
Newton entertained the same opinion,
and predicted future trouble from this
source. As the comet nears the sun its
velocity is increased. It's present veloc-
ity is estimated at 800 miles second,
and it is thought the danger lies, "not
from absorption of SO much matter as
may exist in that comets head and nu-
cleus, but from the conversion OF the
momentum of the swiftly revolving mass
Of the comet into heat, the thermal
equivalent of it's mechanical energy"
Mr.. Proctor says 81 have for my
own part been long of opinion that the
periodical increase of such stars as Mira
(the wonderful starr in the Whale, and
Eta of the ship Argo, is due to the mo-
ton OF some large comet followed by
meteoric train about these two stars. If
ever the day is to come when the heavens
shall dissolve with fervent heat, the
cause of the catastrophe will be the
downfall of some great comet on the
sun" He asserts it is his opinion that
the comet referred to will certainly be
absorbed by the sun, and claims that,
Gas it's period is diminishing rapidly"
it may fall into the sun at an early
date, with the alarming immediate re-
suit that g all the higher forms of life at
least, both animal and vegetable, will be
destroyed off the surface of the earth.
And, though IN a few days the sun
might. resume his ordinary luster, and
no longer glow with abnormal heat, he
would pour his rays on family of
worlds in which not one of the higher
forms Of either vegetable or animal Life
would remain in existence" 1t remains
for some other astronomers of equal
ability to confirm or dispute the theories
of Mr.. Proctor. He may be more sci
entifc, though no more reliable, than
the bogus "Mother Shipton," whose
world-renowned representation,
The world to an end will come
In eighteen hundred and eighty-one,
has driven some weak-minded persons of
slender, enfeebled faith, crazy.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-01
She Had Been to Europe.

A New York gentleman was presented
to the wife of Western member of the
House.. She has been to Europe, and
will never forget it. a g
eyes," said she to the New Yorker,
eyes, we spent day in the picture
stores in Florence. I do just go crazy
over pictures, for, you know, everybody
up our way says I'm splendid common
sewer of art r.
"Indeed r said the astonished gen.
tleman.
sob, yes; why we picked up ever so
much bricky-bracky things and emetics
all over Europe"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-01
Does Science Know How to Build
aCity !?

Some time last summer, while the
health of New York was being dis
cussed in the newspapers, the proprie-
tors OF Scribner raised the question ::
Wether science knows how to build a
perfectly drained and healthful city?
The answers seem to make it appear
that science does not yet know, or, if
it does. Its votaries certainly differ
widely in the methods to be adopted.
AS the result of that inquiry, Col.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-01
Getting Along Nicely.

1t Is stated that the center OF pOpular
tion moves westward at the rate of nine
ty feet a day, and is slowly passing
across the southern portion of Ohio. 1t
is evident, therefore, that the igor
geous East" to which the West has
hitherto looked for it's literature and
lucre. it's manufactures and arts, its ped
agogues and pills, it's capital and cult
ure, is fast losing its grip, and, if it
were to be sunk out of existence to-
morrow, or raised out Of sight in it's own
estimation, the West would merely pause
to say tra-la.la, and keep right on with
its work. The loss of thirteen Con-
gressmen to the East, and q gain of
nineteen to the West, by the last CEN
sus, shows where the crowd is rushing,
and in ten years more the East will be
taken under the wing Of the West, and
the West will see that no harm comes
to it. We feel sorry for the East. It
has always done as well as it knew how,
and there has never been time when it
would not sell us dry goods and Yankee
notions, and take it out in wheat, or
loan money on farm at 10 per cent.
If its people generally cannot yet re-
gard the West as anything but q howl
ing wilderness, where the Indian and the
wild bison roam at will, instead of a
land possessing the refnements of en-
ightened civilization, why then it is
their misfortune and not their fault.
No enmity can ever come between the
two sections, for very many of the
wealthy farmers of the West, who
own broad and fertile acres, will
never forget that their early man
hood was passed amid the steep and
rocky hillsides of the East, where corn
was planted with mallet and cold
chisel, and, after being washed out by
rains couple of times, grew and -four
ished to the height OF two and even three
feet, with an ear on almost every stalk.
No one who is worthy the name Of a man
ever forgets the scenes Of his boyhood.
But the cotton factories of the East are
passing to the South and Southwest,
where they will be nearer the source OF
the raw material; the publication of
books, which nobody ever supposed
could be done anywhere except N the
East, has suddenly been begun in the
West, and 100000 worth were exc
cuted with neatness and dispatch in one
Western city alone last year; Eastern
illustrated papers, rejecting the culture,
humor and police doings of the country,
still hold their own, but their time will
come; Eastern pills, which have drained
so much money from the West, and built
so many palaces in the East, yet Lave a
grip upon the affections Of our people,
but their influence is weakening, and pad
factories are springing up and manhood
is being restored right here in the West
by Western firms: Car factories are COM
ing nearer to Western iron andwood every
day; our Touring mills, which already
make -four enough for paste, are increas-
ing in number and capacity, and the
woods are full Of saw-mills; we shall need
Eastern oil and coal little longer, until
a way is found to decompose water, and
then we shall have no favors to ask, and
the East must not recognize us when we
meet on the treet.--Peck's San.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-01

world slumbers. unconscious of the
midnight tramps through. wind and
rain Of the daily newspaper reporter
If for one night only, he. were to
suspend his labors, then the public
would realize the debt it owes to the
" Night of the Note Book. -
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-01
Duty and Inclination.

You never see the struggle between
duty and inclination more strongly
marked than in the respectful attitude
Of dog sitting on the sidewalk, head
bent. back, and one foot aimed at the
back OF his ear, undecided whether to
spring up and answer the imperative
whistle of his master, or sit still and
shoot the flea he has just got the exact
range and elevation on.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-01
A Fiendish Joke.

&C. think, (" said we'll known orches-
trail leader, i" the best joke ever played
In this town was on an ambitious anna
teur pianist when Gottschalk was here.
The amateurs father was the owner OF
large hall, and he offered the use Of it
to Gottschalk for his benefit. There
was to be place for eight pianos, and
the amateur was to play one of the in
struments. I was leader. I thought
Gottschalk would have q ct when I told
him that the amateur couldn' play three
straight notes Of the piece.
"s He is sure to throw us all out, said
I, sand ruin the performance. .f.
"Gottschalk swore like q Major, but
twas no good. The bills were out, and
he couldn't go back Of his programme,
even if the gift Of the hall for the night
was no consideration to him. At last I
hit on an idea that fixed the whole bust
ness. The amateur came down to re-
hearsal, and we praised him up until he
thought he was to be the star of the
night. As soon as he left we took the
hammers out of his piano and made it
dumb as an oyster. guessed he would
never know the difference, with seven
pianos going at once"
The tuneful convention laughed.
+ 'sAnd just as I thought" said the
leader, hammering on the table with his
glass, "that amateur or his friends never
discovered the trick"
"No?"
"No, sir; he just sailed in and
pounded on that piano and If it was the
worst enemy he ever had. He was bound
to show off among SO many good pian-
lists, and hammered on his keyboard un-
til the perspiration nearly blinded him.
Now and then I looked at him approx
ingly to give him fresh courage, and
every time that I did he gave the piano
lick that nearly made matchwood of
it. His friends all around threw bou-
quets at him till he looked like we'd
ding arch, and when twas all over his
fond parent fell on his neck in the green
room and slipped check for $3.50 into
his hand. The old man didn't know
whether he was standing on his head OF
his heels, he was SO tickled, and the
way he set up the wine for the crowd
was caution.
s's Didn't he do fne,' said he to me,
samong SO many frst-class professionals,
too?' NV +'-.
"I never heard an amateur do so well
in public, said ], and what's more meant
it, Ell! Don't you think I was right? "
Cu,a Fs.0s,ciaco lhr0nicze
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-01

Geoge E. Waring, Jr., has undertaken
to set forth the Disease of Cities In
the May Scribner, and ir the. june
Scribner. the remed es taking New
York city as the cnlet example. A
lively discussion may be looked for
among the sanitarian scientists when
Col. Warnings very radical view are
exploited. -. l.al...ss
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-01
The Latest Case of Plagiarism.

At the opening of the Nevada Legisla-
ture an Eastern minister was invited to
perform the religious service. He ac-
cepted the call and closed the ceremony
with the Lords Prayer. When he had
finished State Senator Doolan turned to
Senator Hammond and remarked audi
bly, "He stole that prayer, and I'll bet
en- it. I heard it almost word for word
in Eureka at a funeral over ten years
400"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-01

Why don't railway corporations take
more women into their employment?
Most of them know how to manage
trains, they can handle switches very
carefully, there is less color blindness
among them than among men-and oc-
casionally one is found who can " fire
up beautifully.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-01

BLACK is not the only color worn in
mourning. In China and Siam white is
worn, and white was also the color Of
mourning among the ancient Romans.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-01
Counter Irritation.

Uncle Nose and Parson Bledsoe were
taking walk along the beach when they
perceived youthful Zulu disporting
himself in the surf, who turned out to
be Parson Bledsoe's boy, Abram Lin
KUN.
"Dat ar boy is gwine to catch cold,
said Old Nose.
Gifts warmness he is gwine ter
CATCH"
L means cold in his head"
And means warmness somewhars
else. "-qaZyeSt0ya N,e,ns
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-01
Claims to Friendship.

Perhaps one reason that we complain
so bitterly Of the fckleness of friends
lies in the fact that we confound ac-
quaintanceship with friendship. It is .
strong attribute of the mind to hope
that which it wishes and in no partic-
ular is it shown more strongly than In
estimating by anticipation the friendly
feelings toward us of those to whom we
may happen to be known. This great
error will usually be found to increase
in the same ratio as the particular per-
son whose friendly feeling we wish to
challenge is more or less in higher
grade of society than ourselves, and
whose means, interest or power is great
er than our own. We are, in such cases,
apt to lay claims to acts of friendship
from those with whom we could only at
best boast an acquaintance. But the
error goes much farther even than this !;
for we frequently make the request, not
in reference to our own position. but to
the power of those from whom we So
icit or expect friendly part. We for
get that we have no earthly claim upon
them; no reason to expect the slightest
sacrifice of their time, interest or even
amusement. We think only Of our own
wishes. What is the consequence? It
will be found in the loss Of the acquaint-
ance of some one whose notice was fat
tering one who felt toward US as much
friendly feeling as we had any right to
expect, and who would have been dis
posed to award to us as much courtesy
and attention, or, one occasion, as
much service, as we had any grounds
for anticipating. From our own folly,
his visits now grow few andfar between,
and, from a well-grounded suspicion Of
a repetition of similar arrogant requests,
they gradually cease altogether. We
have chilled what friendly feeling did
exist toward us by our own folly.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-01
Husband and Wife in Law.

The wife has been much advanced by
the general tenor of the legislation Of
late years in respect to her own property.
She has acquired a pretty independent
position as to title, control and dispo-
sition, but this relates to her property,
not to his. The law has not yet raised
her to the station of superintendent of
her husbands contracts, and probably
never will. He is bound to support her
and the children which she bears to him,
and in order to fulfill this obligation he
ought to have as much freedom in the
management of his business affairs of
the world as unmarried men are allowed
to exercise. In taking wife man does
not put himself under an overseer. He
is not subordinate in his own family,
but the head of it. The law assigns him
this position, not for his own advantage
alone, but as much for the real good tof
his wife and children, and somewhat for
the general interest Of society. A hus-
band left free to lead and govern In his
own family is the most useful husband
to all who may be concerned In the re-
suits of his conduct. That exceptions to
this rule may be pointed out is no OBJ
lection to or disproof of the rule itself.
Humane institutions are all more or less
imperfect, and their complete efficiency
in practical working cannot be expected
in every instance. It is enough that they
produce benefcence to the great mean
and in the great majority of cases. A
subjugated husband is less pleasing
and less energetic member society
than enc who keeps his true place, yet
knows how &c temper authority with
affection. The law does not discourage
conjugal consultations or free and volun-
tary cooperation in all transaction which
affect or may affect the welfare Of the
family. But the law does not
undertake to secure this delightful har.
mony by coercion, but leaves it to issue
spontaneously from the holy relation of
matrimony.-Georgi0 Supreme Court.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-01


sTH1s seat appears to be se-kewered, :"
the schoolmaster remarked as he sat
down in his chair and skewered himself
on bent pin. "And if I could just
find the little boy who made the plat of
the hall and marked off the seats, I
would chalk his back for the rest of the
amusement season." And, as he stood
enthusiastically drawing through his
fingers the long, timber switch with
which he proposed to do the chalking,
the little boy who was thus offered an
opportunity to deadhead himself into 9
free show sat in his seat and shivered
with emotion, while he mentally re-
solved that he would postpone any indi-
cation Of merriment in which he might
feel tempted to indulge until such time
as he might be just about nine miles
from where he then was Bssrdette.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-01


eel have related this incident to show
you the cloud of misfortune that hung
over our family, and shortly afterward
enveloped me in its folds.
Although probably no one actually
believed that this tragedy was other
than sad accident, yet some there were
who, recalling the enmity between the
two men, were malicious enough to whis-
per that the shooting was premeditated
under cover Of the play. These rumors
coming to my fathers ears cut short his
stage career. He secluded himself close.
~ at home and would see no one. One
night, recollect, he called me into his
room, and said i: My son, it would have
been far better for me if had purposely
killed that man, for in that case my pun
ishment would be deserved and sure.
This distrust, the averted eyes of those
who were once proud to call themselves
my friends, is killing me. He must
have spoken in spirit of prophecy, for
on the following morning he died.
soon after this event was the re-
cipient of some fattering offers from
theatrical managers, and I determined
to return to the stage, although my
mother bitterly opposed it. Oh that I
had listened to her gentle pleadings,
But youth is proud and headstrong, and
unwilling to heed words of caution.
Was I not DESTROYS of providing for all
her present and future needs? Had I,
although acting contrary to her wishes,
any other object than her ultimate hap
piness in view? Would she not, sooner
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