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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-16
What Makes the Mule 60,

A gaunt and wicked looking mule,
belonging to countyman, baked in
River street, and the usual crowd gath
cred to offer advice and suggest plans
for moving the animal. Various exper-
iments were tried, such as twisting his
tail and putting dirt into his eyes, ears
and mouth; but he retained his COM
posure and refused to notice the treat
ment of the operator even with a kick.
They were about to build fire under
him when saloon keeper in the neigh
borhood offered to bet SIS that he could
make him 'git," and, there being no
takers, concluded to do it just for the
sake of showing his knowledge of mules.
He took from his pocket flask of River
street " tangle-foot," and poured little
into the mules massive mouth. In q
second afterward there was blank aston
ishment in every feature of that mules
countenance, and the next instant he
bumped himself and shot down the
street as if with the intent of ecGpsing
st. Julien's record. Theowner watched
him for moment, and then, turning to
the bottle holder, said: "Mister, If that
stuff amt too pizen strong I'll take q
drop Of it in my mouth, for I've got to
catch that mule. "-Naslau0 Gazette.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-16
BRIGHT NEWSBOYS.

The boys who sell the Chronicle on
the streets, when not engaged in puff
ing out their intellectual force through
the insidious cigarette or cigar stump,
are keen and bright, as their business
communings show:
"Wot yer goin' to holler to-day,
Jamesy?" said one OF the leaders of the
squad to his partner the other after
noon.
"I'm goin' ter sing out: 'Ere's yer
Central Persifk train robbers. They
make fyasko and skip"
"Wot's fyasko, Jimmy"
81 dunno, adzactly, Patsy, but it's q
heap of money, you cap betcher life on
that"
"WeN, I'm goin' to holler, 'Desprit
fight on D street. Crosby's gallant de-
fense.'"
"Wot's gallant defense ?"
"Hittin' woman wild a club. . Vir-
q5na0 City Chronicle.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-16
NOT nunish me. !"

not punish me-"
So he opened his mouth very wide,
and put both fists in his eyes, and be-
gan. "Boo-hoo boo-hoo! oh oh !!
o-o-oh
But the next moment came a change
in his tone, and his screams we're those
of real terror and pain.
Poor Hans He had forgotten the
pepper-pot, which was still tightly
clasped in one hand |; and now his eyes
and nose were as full of pepper as poor
pussy's had been, and like her he ran
round and round the room, shrieking
and screaming.
What sight met his mothers eyes
when she opened the door. Hans with
his mouth wide open, and his face
streaming with tears and pepper, and
her beautiful dish on the floor, broken
in fifty pieces Youths Companion.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-16

gifts were caskets of magnificent rubies
and other precious gems.
It was eighteen months before they
reached Ormuz, and during that time
two or three of the ENJOYS and 600 of
the Princess attendants had died. The
Persian bridegroom was dead also, and
so was the monarch of Cathay, Khubla
Khan.
The Polos now were freed from their
promise to return; and after staying
nine months in Persia-for they liked
to explore every place at which they
stopped-they started on their long
journey to Venice. They arrived there
in safety, after an absence of twenty
four years and at first no one would
believe that these outlandish- looking
travellers were the real Polos. But they
soon proved their identity, and became
known far and wide as the most wonder
full travellers OF the time.
Marco was prisoner in Genoa for
four years, after battle with the Gen
oese, and he amused himself during
this dreary period by writing an ac-
count of his travels and his life at the
court of the Khan.-Harper's Young
PeODle.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-16

But Paris eclipses London as much as
London does New York. The Paris
parks are thus described:
SIN the extent, picturesque beauty
and artistic establishment OF her mag
ni6cent pleasure grounds Paris is with
out an equal. All that art in its varied
resources could contribute, all that the
most generous expenditure of money
could accomplish, all that human inge-
nuity could devise, have united to rem
der the parks Of Paris superior to those
of all the other capitals OF Europe COM
bined. Within the limits of the city
proper there are, it is true, with the ex-
ception of the park of Monceaux, which
is the perfection of landscape gardening
and few other ELECTROMAGNETIC
spaces, only public squares and places,
but beyond the boundaries there are, at
distances from less than a mile to ten,
fifteen and twenty miles, grand parks
like the Bots de Boulogne, the Bots de
Vincennes, st. Cloud, St. German, the
Champs Elysees, the Buttes Chau-
mont, and many others. The Bots de
Boulogne aud the Bots de Vincennes
have each $500 acres, while in the park
of st. Cloud there are 1000 acres. tits
almost needless to say that they add
largely not only to the beauty but to the
pecuniary benefit of the city, and at
trect tens Of thousands of the pleasure
seekers from the Old and New Worlds
to the brilliant capital of the French re-
public. Within little more than an
hour by rail the great Forest OF Fon-
tainebleau, extending over an area of
$4,000 acres, and which, in addition to
its natural beauties Of grove and mead
ow, has several neutrality-suspicious.
tracts of land blooming with the choicest
plants and flowers. OF so-called parks
in Paris and its immediate vicinity there
are about 5000 acres, but of public
grounds, including the Forest of Fon-
tainebleau. there are over 10000 acres.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-16
Easls and the Pepper-Pot.

Little Hans was a very naughty boy
one day.
What do you think he did?
Well, he did almost everything that
was mischievous; at least, everything
he could think of.
suppose he got out of bed the wrong
way, or opened his left eye first instead
of his right, or forgot to say Popocata-
petl before he began his breakfast, or
some such dreadful thing; and, if he
did, of course that was enough to make
him naughty, wasn't it?
First, he wouln't eat his breakfast.
There was not enough sugar on his por-
ridge. Mamma put on some more, and
then there was too much. CThis shows
that something was very wrong with
him, for who ever heard of achild having
TOO much sugar?) And he wouldn't
eat it. "Wah wah ! booi'' no, he
wouldn't.
So he didn't. And nobody was bit
the worse for it but himself
After breakfast he felt hungry. and
went back into the kitchen, but mamma
had put everything away except the
pepper-pot.
When Hans saw the pepper-pot, he
forgot that he was hungry. Now he
world bora COMA f,1y,
So no called the cat. who was asleep
by the stove, and began to pat and
stroke her.
Pussy purred, and felt very happy,
when suddenly-puff! Hans shook the
pepper-pot over her nose.
Poor pussy! Her eyes and nose were
full of pepper. She newed piteously,
and ran round and round, sneezing and
splitting. That was fun for Hans.
Still holding the pepper-pot, he looked
about for some new sport, and saw on
shelf beautiful blue platter, large and
round, which he had not often seen, as
it was usually kept locked up in the
cupboard.
How finely that would spin on the
smooth kitchen hocr.
Up he climbed, down he clibmed, and
soon the platter was spinning beauti-
fully.
"Whir-r-r-r, whir-r, whir-r- crash I"
this was what the platter said. And it
never said anything else, for it was
broken in fifty pieces.
Hans was very still for a moment
Then he said to himself, IF mamma
finds me crying hard, perhaps she may
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-16

in Concord, but could not help that
I stay here because it is pleasant here,
and ] like to be with my friends. Butt
have nothing to do with the town of
Concord WELL said the man, you
live in the town and you must pay your
poll-tax.' But I haven't any $1.59,'
SAID Henry; Il haven't any money, and
I wouldn't pay you if I had Very
well, said the man, do you know what
we shall do with you if you don't pay?'
Why, there are some stone walls over
there, and [ presume you will put me
inside Them That was exactly what
they did. They SHUT him up in prison
because he would not pay his poll-tax.
We'll, he said, it seems can not do
as / wish but society steps in. ] was
born here without any choice OF my own,
and now society shuts me up in jail and
takes away my liberty. 1t shuts me up
because I refuse to do wrong, and here
am among a lot of men it has shut up
because they have done wrong. This
looks like good missionary ground, and
will take and work among these menl'
So he became intimate with the prison
ers, and talked among them great deal.
One day very distinguished visitor
Ralph Waldo Emerson) came to see
him, and asked Henry, why are you
here?' Waldo, why are you not here?'
was the retort. After Thoreau had been
in prison some weeks the jailer came
and said that he could go, that friend
of his Emerson) had paid his tax. But
I didn't ask him to pay my tax, said
Thoreau; L didn't give him any author
ity to pay it. Beside, I don't want to
go out. I am doing good work among
these prisoners and would rather stay.
You took away my liberty by putting
me in here against my will, and now you
take away my liberty by sending me out
against my will.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-16
Cinderella.

Doyou know that thestory of Cinderella
is one OF the Oldest stories in the world !?
It has becntold to delighted youngsters
for thousands of years. and by almost
all races of people. There are, of course,
some little differences in the story, as
told by different peoples; the French,
for instance, have a COW for the good
fairy, and when the animal was about to
be killed she told Cinderella Tor rather
Cedrensette, which IS her French nance
to collect her bones into her hide. and
to wish over them for anything she
wanted. As the Scotch tell it, dying
Queen gave her daughter ga little red
ealfy," which was killed by the cruel
step-mother, and over its bones the child,
Rashincoat as she is called, wished for
her three dresses. Jerusalem Mes
SenQeT.
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neve 1t may contain something derived
from person sick with diphtheria.
1ESs0Ns IN ORTHOEPY.

hoodlum, who came from HAWAII,
Remarked to q ChinaInan: "Soyl
John, git ont Of here~
And over the ear
Was he ~hacked by this ill-mannered bali.
For the tourist how every one feels,
When they hear him observe /" Los Angeles
Has an elegant climate"
But, as for rhyme, it
viii haunt poor scribe till he squeals.
The Spaniards all call it Los An-gheles,"
But to say it like that would sure strangle us;
Their is gutteral,
But soft we utter al,
And thus in maze we entange us.
A Boston man said 'At Vallejo"
But native said: " / disagree, Joe;
If thus you pronounce it,
You'll surely be bounced,
And back to the East have to fee, joe"
swell. then, !" said the tourist, :. At Vallejo"
"You are wrongn said the friend, " radically, Joe,
You must rhyme it with heigh-ho,
And call it Valla-ho,
Though to yen it may sound comically, Joe"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-16
A Weak Heart "Nefer Wins Noding. ,,

"Herman, do you still go around NIT
Rachel Goslinsky?" said Hofenstein.
eyes, sir" replied the clerk, CT
dakes her oud sometimes ven I don't got
nodin to do
"Vell, you must keep on daking her
oud, because she vas velty, you know,
und you don't find dem often desc days.
Ven vas making love NIT my wife, Leah
Heidenheiner, haf great deal of
drouble, but I meier veakens. Old man
Moses Heidenheimer's blaze was in de
country aloud Won mile from Vicksburg,
und I used to go oud dere to see Leah.
Won day vile I vas baying visit to
Leah, her leedle broder, Levi, come
running In de house to his fader and
says: PA, de old prihdle COW has poked
de fence allsdown und vas in the field
NIT de corn I dinks it viii make a
good umbression on old man Heiden-
heimer, und T says : 'Misder Heiden-
heimer, you sday in de house und I vii
drive de cow away Leah, she says !:
'Misder Hofenstein, you peter had keep
away from de COW she Will chase you
all around. Meier mind, Miss Leah
I says, I meier get sgcared in anyding,'
und ven I STARTED out to de field old
Moses Heidenheimer dells me to bust
de COW vide oben NIT sdick, und says
will. Leetle Levi Heidenheimer comes
along NIT me, und ven l got we're de COW
vas [ drinks of vat man dells me vonce,
und dot vas to look at Wild beast in de
eye und frown und it viii run away. Her
man, venever man tells you dot, you
dell him lie vas a liar. I looked at de
COW, and frowns, butshe. don't do nod
ings. I gets leetle closer, and I frowns
some more, und vat you dink?, De next
minute de COW runs at me. Shust as I
turn around myself to get oud of de way
de COW hits me mid her head. My gr-r-
acious, Herman, it vas derrible, und for
a vile J drinks dot my head vas in New
Jersey und my legs vas in de Rocky
mountains. De cow hits me COUPLE of
dimes more NIT her head, and I gets up
and runs dwice faster den efer did, und
de cow comes rigid alder me. At last
gets to bersimmon sapling vot vas no
larger den my arm, und l vent up de
sapling. Veil, Herman, it was an hour
before I got down from we're vas, und
Leah und all uf dem laughed aloud it,
but I shust keeps on making love mid
her -undil We vas married. Recollect,
Herman, vile you vas gourting Rachel
Goslinsky don't get Discouraged. A
weak heart meier wins noding"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-16
The Saint BeY,.ard Dog.

The great Saint Bernard mountain is
one of the high mountains in Switzer-
land. On the highest point of the pass
over it is o large stone convent, which is
used as place Of refuge for travellers.
It is 5000 feet above the sea, and is the
abode of number Of pious men, called
monks. They have breed of large,
noble dogs that scent out people lost in
the snow. They scratch away the drift,
and bark loudly all the while, SO as to
let the monks know what has happened.
One of these dogs saved forty persons,
and among them was little boy that
the dog managed to restore from frozen
state, and carried on his back to the
convent. These dogs are tall, with large
limbs and broad chests. With a case
containing food or cordials slung about
their necks, they go out to seek for
travellers. Sometimes the monks go with
them. Being able on their four feet to
cross great sheets of snow where men
could not venture, the dogs trace out
any one who may be lost in the drifts.
They supply him with food, and some
times take him home on their backs.
In winter there are what are called
avalanches. A great mass of snow
gathers on high place till it gets so
heavy that it falls at once down the
mountain. In doing SO it makes noise
like the discharge of a cannon. Some
times the snow-drifts surround the walls
of the convent to the height of forty
feet. The deep little lake before it does
not melt till July, and freezes again in
September, and the snow falls almost
erery day N the year. Not tree Is to
be seen, but only patches of moss, grass
and bright, hardy little flowers. The
kind monks are cheered in their lonely
life by the thought of doing good
Nursery.
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THE BRAHMIN.

The Brahmin, says DIR. Scudder, has,
intellectually, no superior. No man can
mingle much with them and not have
his wits sharpened. They are the
learned men of the country. The San
scrit, 'Queen Of languages, ;" is their
native tongue, and its vast literature has
been their grand field of mental train
ing. The Brahmin is almost white,
wonderfully neat, begins every day In
the water-tank, eats no animal food, be
Ieving that if he does he shall pass
through as many transmigrations after
death as there are hairs on the animal
of which he eats. Physically these peo-
pie are of splendid form, majestic heads,
and carry themselves grandly.
Shock.
= Tt will be remembered that when
President Garfield was shot, he imme-
diately sank to the ground his tenn
perature descended below the normal
standard, and the pallor of death settled
on his features.
Had this condition gone little fIrth-
er. the heart would have ceased its
beating.
This was what they call shock.
It was not caused by fright, nor by
any effect on the feelings. it was pure
ly physical. It is often among the most
dangerous effects of accident Indeed,
many a person has died of an accidental
physical injury who would have fully
recovered, could the body have rallied
from the shock.
Precisely wherein the shock consists
it is difficult to say. 1t ceems to be
somewhat analogous to the effect of a
blow on the head, which instantly, and
for time, arrests consciousness and the
power of motion.
Light depends on certain wave-hke
movement LII the molecules of ether;
and sound on similar movement In the
molecules of air. Now, to touch vi
brating bell, or musical string, at once
arrests the sound.
So it is thought that all nervous action
depends on like undulation in the mo-
lecules of the nerve substance, and q
powerful disturbing cause, acting sud-
denly, somehow arrests, partially or
wholly, these movements back even to
the nerve centers.
Every case of shock involves danger
the danger that the vital organs, cat
off from the force that works them, may
cease to act. What is needed in such
cases is to stimulate the heart. Youths
Communion.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-16
OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
Mammals Baddtsh BOY.

Mammn,s Baddtsh BOY.
Cutting steamships on the chair,
Cutting off the dolly's hair,
Cutting paper on the stair, 81
Cutting capers everywhere, Il
That's Willie.
Making "doggies on the wan,
Making mud-pies in the hall,
Making "horse hnesn Of my shawl,
Making trouble for us all,
That's Willie.
Hammering upon the floor,
Shouting till his throat is sore,
Making all youths batteries roar.
All of this and even more,
That's Willie.
Selling all his finest clothes,
Stumbling ont his French-kd toes,
Dirty cheeks and dirty nose,
Caring little how he goes,
That's Willie.
Ali my heart is sore and 81.
Thinking of"my naughty lad;
Other mammas never had,
Never had boy SO bad
AS Willie.
But when cuddled down to sleep,
And his arms around me creep,
Asking God his soul to keep,
Then in tender love I weep,
Then l know hold too cheap,
My precious Willie.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-16
QUE JUVENILES.
Phips Secret.

PhiPs Secret.
know little girl,
But won't tell whol
Her hair is of the geld,
And her eyes arc of the blue,
Her smile is of the sweet,
And her heart is Of the true;
Such pretty little grill
But won't hell who.
see her every day,
Butt won't tell where;
It may be in the lane,
By the thorn-tree there;
1t may be in the garden,
By the rosebuds fair;
Such pretty little grill
But won't tell where.
III marry her some day,
But won't tell when;
The very smallest boys
Make the very biggest men.
When I'm as tall ss father,
You may ask about it then;
Such pretty little grill
But WON'T tell when.
Laura e. Richards.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-16

TIE number of women employed in
the railway offices of America is now
over 5000. They get paid from SIS to
$50 month. Nearly all of them are
either the widows, wives or daughters Of
defunct or active male employees on the
different roads.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-16

AN ant town in the Allegheny mount
aims consists of 1000 or LOO nests,
which rise in cones to height of from
two to five feet. The ground below is
riddled in every direction with subterra-
mean passages.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-16
Public Parks.

New York city plumes herself on the
space of ground she has devoted to pub
lie parks, but it seems small when COM
pared with the parks in London, which
cover the following areas
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-16

There are, beside the parks proper
which are included in this list, a large
number of so-called "downs, com
mons" and fields, some Of which nave an
area of between fifty and 100 acres, that
run the aggregate up to at least Ii, 600
acres. The following are the areas OF
the New York parks:
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-06-10
Notice to Contractors.

A part of the G. p. Church house,
to be built at Milan, Tenn, viii be
let out on the fifth day of June, 1882.
Contractors will please take notice.
The contractors must be reliab BILE and
give good testimonials in regard to
their ability as workmen. The house
is to be frame or WOOD house. Call
at Brown u Dickson's store to see
plan of building and specifications.
F. P. FLANIKEN,
49,, superintending.
Milan, May, 8, 1852.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-06-10

The Milan correspondent of the
Memphis Avalanche propounds the
following;
Query for the Exchange: If it is
aesthetic for lawyer to have a wind>
mill in front of his office made out of
Il sunfower, what is it for an editor
to have "a large red rose attached to
the lapel of his coat at Pythian
picnic?
We guess he would be considered
the Glover of the fock"--One who
was not "born to blush unseen, and
waste his sweetness on the desert air"
who would not, like the foolish sum
flower, forever keep his eye on the
god OF day, when the woods were full
of goddesses as fair as the eve of man
e'er looked upon.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-06-10

The DR.. Har:er's Medicine Compa.
ny of St. Louis, Mo-, is one of the
most honorable and substantial estab,
lishments in the country. DR.. Har-
ter's Iron Tonic is one of the standard
and most highly esteemed preparations
of the day, and Justly enjoys wide
and increasing sale. This is brought
about by the high merit of the goods
and the Judicious and extensive man
ner in which they are advertised
throughout the country. Laudatory
columns might oe easily written in
their praise, but with goods so able to
speak for themselves, simple facts
serve a better purpose. Moines
(Ioaca) Western Farm Journal.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-06-10

Mr.. Owen Prentiss, city editor of
the Nashville World, and his wife
No. 2 were arrested last Tuesday
night at the instance of Mrs. M. 5.
Prentiss, wife No. /, who charges
them with unlawful cohabitation.
She claims that she is the legal wife,
while Premises says he was never mar.
ried to her, and that is is blackmail-
ing affair. The matter will come up
in he courts.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-06-10

Democratic conventions were held
in many of the counties last Monday,
when harmony was the watchword.
The dissatisfaction with the 60>etc
settlement is nearly universal. Sew.
eral counties send uninstructed dele
cations. Some instruct for Marks,
some for Atkins, and others for
Daniel.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-06-10

The editor of the Union City Our
Country, enumerating the advanta-
ges of Obion county over Gibson, says:
eve have the finest timber in the
world AMI lots of it," Yes, that's true.
You are away out in the woods and
swamps, and when you get some peo,
pie to settle there it will be the finest
opening for physicians in West Tens
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-06-10

The republicans are happy over
democratic discussions about the state
debt, and are very hopeful of tri-
umph next November. The great
battle is to be fought in the democrat.
ic state convention on the Goth inst.
Victory or defeat depends on the work
of that day.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-06-10

1t is said that one hundred thousand
working men are idle in the north,
striking for higher wages. If kept up
long, the suffering will be very distress.
ing. We in the south are never
troubled in this way. Being an ag-
ricultural and not a manufacturing
people, strikes are hardly known here.