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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-09
BoTTo,cing n Quarter.

W %NtftCss
Three city boys were on their way
home from school, and, as there were at
least two hours before dark (and before
supper-time), they we're quite ready to
stop and look at anything, from circus
to dog-fght.
"Oh, boys, Just look r' cried Charlie
Thorn.
"What? Where?' exclaimed his
companions. They were now in front
OF secondhand bookstore and, peint-
ing to thick green-covered volume in
the window, Charlie exclaimed:
"Why, there's the Arabian Nights
real good, not torn a bit, marked
'only 25 cents Full Of pictures, tool"
"Oh p said, OF rather sighed, Edgar
Denny and VIII Farnham.
Three faces were pressed close to the
booksellers window, three pairs of eager
eyes gloated over the treasure for to
what 10 or 12-year-old boy is not the
"Arabian Nights a treasure?
Neither Edgar, Charlie nor Will had
ever read the wonderful book; but one
of the latter's cousins had done so, and
had retailed one or two of the stories to
VIII, and he in turn had repeated them
to his two friends. And to think that
all this-yoc's eggs, one-eyed caliphs,
sparkling jewels, genii, palaces-might
be obtained for 25 cents.
II say" remarked Edgar, doubtfully,
"has any fellow got quarter?''
No fellow had; what was worse, the
united wealth of the three "fellows
amounted to just 7 cents.
"Perhaps, if I tell papa about it, he'll
buy it for Us, suggested Charlie.
"Pshawl Somebody'n snap it up be-
fore you can get to your fathers store.
A bargain like that isn't to be had every
day."
eff Tom Baker sees it he'll buy it,
sure pop. He's always got money!"
sighed Edgar. elf he hadn't been kept
in, like as not he'd have boughtit before
this"
Suddenly Wills face frightened. Put
ting his hand in his pocket he drew out
81 bill, and announced his intention Of
buying the book.
GA dollar Where did you get it %
asked Charlie, in amazement
Tisn't mine Its Aunt Mary's. She
gave ne a dollar this noon, and asked
me to pay so cents that she owed to Mr..
Jennison, the apothecary, you know.
She viii not be home until late this
evening and in the meantime can run
up to grandma's and get quarter she
owes me for some eggs I sold her-my
little bantam's eggs Aunt Mary viii
not mind, if I do borrow quarter from
her for little while"
So the treasury Of marvels passed into
VIII Farnham's possession, and the
three happy boys made immediate ar
engagements for reading it aloud, turn
and turn about. At every street corner
they paused to look at "iust one more
picture, and it was with violent effort
that Will tore himself away to "run up
to grandua's.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-09
LOVE SONG.
BY GEN. W. Il. LYTLE.

Nay, frown not, fairest, chide no more
Nor blame the blushing wine.
Its fiery kiss is innocent,
When thrills the pulse with wine.
Then leave the goblet in my hand,
And veil thy glences bright,
Lest wine and beauty mingling,
Should wreck my soul tonight.
Then, sweetest, to the ancient rim,
In sculptured beauty rare,
Bow down thy red-arched lips and quaf
The wine, that conquers care.
Or breathe upon the shining cup
TIL that its perfume be
Sweet as the scent of orange caves
Upon some tropic sea.
And while thy fingers idly stray
In dalliance DER thy Tyre,
Sing to me, love. some rare old song
That gushed from heart Of FIRE
Songs such as Grecian phalanx Eyrpned
When freedoms field was won,
And Persia's glory with the light
Faded at Marathon.
Sing til the shouts Of armed men
Ring bravely out once more;
Sing till again the ghost-white tents
Shine by the moonlit shore.
Bid from their melancholy graves
The buried hopes to start,
knew ere many a storm had swept
The dew drops from my heart.
Sing the deep memories Of the past,
MY soul shall follow thee,
Its boundless depths re-echoing
Thy glorious lninstrelsy.
And as the wild vibrations hang
Elfettered by the air,
III drink, thy white arm round NE, love,
IL wine, that conquers care.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-09
A Men oniie Scene.

The Mennonites intend keeping to
themselves, and have no intention of
marrying or giving in marriage with the
children Of the land. At first some Of
the girls went out to service, but one
having got married the order went forth
that all the others were to return home
at once, which was done. As race
they are thrifty and industrious, but
Their neighbors say that the women do
most of the work. An open ditch about
mile III length, beautifully dug, and
with the turf neatly banked up on each
side, was said to be all women's work.
Large numbers Of women were also to
be seen in the felds.-Reu. Prof. Grant,
i9s Manitoba.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-09
OUR JUTENILES.
FIOy's Questions.


Robin, in the cherry tree,
Sing little song to me;
Eel me, Redbreast, where you go
When the ground is white with snow?
When the flowers lie buried deep,
When the brooks are all asleep?
Robin Redbreast, tell me true,
When It's winter, where are you?
To some fair land do you fly,
Where the flowers never die?
Where the brooklets gently flow,
Where the softest breezes blow?
In distant sunny cline,
Where tits always summertime,
Do you sing your sweetest song
Sing and sing the whole day long?
Tell me, Robin Redbreast, dear,
How you know when spring is here?
How you know the time has come
For your airy voyage home
To the dear old cherry tree,
To the baby and to me?
Sing and tell me, Robin, sing,
How you know when it is spring.
DO the fairies of the flowers
Which have bloomed in summer hours
IN their snug homes underground
5oneysuckle-trumpets gound?
Do they ring the lily-bells,
Making music sweet, which tells
All the pretty birds that sing
Spring IS coming-merry spring?
WIS Companion.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-09
"THE rolling SNOWFALL gathers nc

"THE rolling SNOWFALL gathers no
moss" as Tom said when his hard hand
full of cold stuff whizzed by his uncle's
ear and burst into a thousand bits
against the side of the house. eyes, +"
said his uncle, as he hit Tom in the
back with clod of snow as big as his
head, "and I feel called upon to teach
the young idea how to shoot"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-09

The Lebanon Shakers number 31O'
two-thirds of whom are women ae ~ ZOE ,ads'
and their property is valued at 81 ,ooo,-
600. Members relinguish all claims on
retiring from the community.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-06-09

1t is an easy matter to forecast the weather,
like Professor Tice and Mr. Vennor, if people
will only give their minds to it. BY closely
reading and studying the predictions of those
good weather-breeders, we have deduced the
following rules by which they may make their
forecasts-hind-c of the weather are not
made until the next day.
An intensely blue sky indicates temporary
absence Of clouds. Under other circumstan-
ces an intensely blew sky indicates a tornado.
When woman leaves piece of soap on
the stairs where her husband will step on it,
it is dead sure sign of storm.
When the sun rises behind bank of clouds
and the clouds hang low all around the hori-
zon and all over the sky, and the air feels
damp, and there is q fine drizzling mist blow
ing the indications are that there will be rain
somewhere in the United States or Canada.
When it begins to thunder, look out for
lightning.
When a man gets up in the night and feels
along the pantry shelf in the dark, and knocks
the big square bottle without any label on it
down to the floor md breaks it, it is a sign
there is going to be dry spell until seven or
eight o'clock in the morning.
When the spring millinery openings are Rd-
vertised, look out for bright, sunny weather
all around the house, with treacherous calms
and rising barometer, which are indicative of
sudden tempests and mean temperature.
When the cradle begins to vibrate with ir-
regular, spasmodc motions about one o'clock
in the morning, look out for squalls and try
to remember where you put the bottle of par
egoric the last time you used it.
When the youngest boy in the family comes
home more than three hours after school, with
his hair wet and his shirt wrong side out, look
out for spanking breeze.
To see the head of the family feel in his
right. hand pocket, then in his left hand pock-
ct, then in all his vest pockets then in his
hip pocket, then in his coat pockets, and then
gaze at the ceiling, indicates mo change"
II he suddenly stops whistling to the cell
ing and expands his broad grimace of delight,
it will mean an unexpected change"
If the spring bonnet comes home trimmed
on the right side for the wearer's seat in
church, and has two more sprigs and three
more dandelions than the woman's in the next
pew, it is 'set fair"
The weather during the whole of Thanks
| giving weeks ~ (D+!
An unusually large number of spiders pres
ages very mild or very open winter, as the
case may be-
If the corn husks are thick, winter will be
| colder than summer.
If the corn husks are thin, summer will be
warmer than winter.
II corn husks are neither thick nor thin,
| the summer will be warm and the winter cold.
| If the weather prophet predicts a rainy sea-
son, and it happens to rain away out in Gala
veras county, aud is as dry as a bone all over
| the rest of America, this rain must be set
down to the credit of the weather-breeder,
and all the dry time counts for nothing. -
| Burlington Hdiokeye.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-06-09

more wizened every day. Finally he came to
our gate one day, and beckoned to me mystic
riousy.
'Come over to my house honey" he whis-
pered, 'an' bring pen an ink an piece O.
paper wild ye. l wants yo' to write me let
ter"
ran into the house for my little writing
desk, and soon followed Uncle Ned TO his
cabin.
Nov, honey" he said, after barring the
door carefully, don't yo OK me no questions,
but jes' put down de words dat come out O. my
mouf on dat ar paper"
'Very well, uncle-go on"
'Anniky Hobbleston, he began "dat we'd
din amt a-gwine to come off. Yo' cleans up
too much to suit me. l aint used to so much
water splashin aroun Dirts warmin'; spec
I'd freeze dis winter if yous here. An you
We got too much tongue. Besides, Ise got
anudder wife over in Upper An ant a.
gwine to marry. As for habin' de law, Ise
leavin' desc parts an l takes de pigs wild me
yo' can't find 'eD, and yo' can't find me. For
amt a gloi1le TO marry l was born a bach
'lor, and a bach'lor I'll represent myself befo'
de Judgment seat. Ef yo' gives yer promise
not to say no more bout dis marryin' busi-
ness, p'raps I'll come back some day. So no
mo at present from your humble worshipper,
NED CUDDY."
~
asked, greatly amused
"Yes, honey, if yo' says SO an it's kind
O. soothin to de feelin's OBJ a woman, yer
know"
wrote it all down, and read it aloud to I'm
Gle Ned.
"Now, my chile" said he, I'm a-gwine to
git on my mule soon as de moon rises t-night
an drive my pigs to Col'water Gap, whar I'll
stay an fish. Soon's I'm well gone, yo' take
that ar letter to Anniky, an min yo' don't
tell whar Ise gone. Ef she takes it all right
an promises t let me alone, you write me a
letter, an I'll git de fust Methods preacher
come cross in de woods to read it to me. Den
OF it's all right, I'll come back and weed yer
flower gyardin for yo' as pooty as preachin."
agreed to do all Uncle Ned asked, and we
parted like conspirators. Sure enough, the
next morning Uncle Ned was missing and
after waiting reasonable time 1 explained
the matter to my parents, and carried his let
ter to Aunt Anniky.
Powers above!" was her only comment as
l finished the remarkable epistle. Then, af-
ter pause to collect her thoughts, she seized
me by the shoulder, saying:
Run to yo' pappy, honey, quick, an ax
him ef he's gwine to stick to his bargain bout
de teef. Yo' know he p'intedly said dey was
a ioeddin' gift"
OF course my father sent word that she
must keep the teeth, and my mother added
message of sympathy, with a present of a
pocket-handkerchief to dry Aunt Anniky's
tears
But "It's all right, said that sensible old
soul, opening her piano-lid with a cheerful
laugh. "Bress yo', chile, twas de teef want
ed, not de man An, honey, you jes send
word to that shif'less ole nigger, eff yo' know
whar he's gone, to come back home an git
his crap in dc groun' an as far as I'm con-
safned you jes' let him know 1 wouldn't pick
him up wild ten-foot pole-not ef he was to
beg me on his knees till the millennial day."
-Sher,oOod Bonner in Hdqper's Weekly.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-06-09
Miscellany.
To "a swallow Building Under our
Eayes,

Eaves,
Thou too hast Travelled, little futtering thing
Hast seen the world, and now thy weary wing
Thou too must rest.
But much, my little bird, coudst thou but tell,
I'd give to know why here thou lk'st 90 well
To build thy nest.
For thou hast passed fair places In thy flight;
A world lay all beneath thee where to light;
Aud strange thy taste,
OF all the varied scenes that met thine eye
OF all the spots for building meath the sky
To choose this waste.
Did fortune try theeY was thy little purse
Perchance run low, and thou, afraid of worse,
Felt here secure7
Ah, mol thou need'st not gold, thou happy onel
Thou know'st II not. or all Gods creatures man
Alone is poorl
What was II, then some mystic turn Of thought,
Caught under German caves and hither brought
Marring thine eye
For the worlds loyeliness, till thou art grown
A sober thing that dost but NOPE and moan,
Not knowing why7
Nay, If thy mind be sound 1 need not ask,
Since here see thee working at thy task
with wing and beak.
A wel-aid scheme doth that small head contain,
At which thou work'st, brave bird, with might ant
Nor more noed'st seek
In truth, I rather take It thou hast got
By instinct wise much sense about thy lot,
And hast small care
Whether an Eden or a desert be
Thy home, 80 thou remain'st alive aud free
To skim the air.
God speed thee, pretty bird may thy small nest
With little ones all in good time be blest
love thee much,
For well thou managest that life Of thine.
While / oh, ask not what do with minel
Would were suchl
-Hrs Thomas Carlye.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-06-09

The ATROCITIES ON THE JEWS IN RUSSIA.
Within few days last month no fower than
1876 mutilated Jews were taken into a single
hospital at Odessa, and many others were ex-
pected soon TO arrive from the ruins of their
homes in the neighborhood. An Austrian
physician who has visited the place describes
some of the horrors he witnessed there. The
most of the wounds, he say, were of very
dangerous character, ''the aggressors having
been cruel enough to pour spirits and petro-
leum into them" Did they resist this treat
lnent, the Russians cut of arms and legs, aud
carried them to the woods as food for wolves.
One young woman of 1S years had her
breast cut of with sword, while her 1-year-
old baby had its eyes put out with a red-hot
iron" On Easter eve, she says, "a wild
horde burst open her door, took her baby,
and threatened not to return it until she had
given up all the money and valuables in the
house. She fetched oil she had. When the
child was returned to her, its eyes had already
been put out In her despair she threw her
self upon those who had done the horrible
deed, but they flung her to the ground, treat
ed her in the most horrible fashion imagina-
BILE, and when her husband returned and drew
a revolver, he was thrown to the ground also,
bound with cords, and forced TO look on
while the monsters cut his wife's breast clean
away. She was left lying there with her ba-
by, but the man was carried off, and she has
never heard of him since" An old man with
a white beard had had his arm broken in
three places another had had both his feet
sawed off one boys breast was cleft in two,
and anothers teeth were torn out. About
5000 children in that part of Russia are de-
pendent on the world, having lost their par
ents
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-06-09
The Manufacture Of Beer.

There is probably no branch Of industry which
present more startling picture Of increase Of pro-
duction than the manufacture of beer in this
Try In 1868 only 765 S27 barrels Of beer made
in the United States. In 1881 the product amounted
to barrels increase Of 679 per cent. OF
the whole quantity made in the country in the year
1880, New York produced 1897 per cent, Ohio $40
per cent, and Wisconsin 6.33 per cent? that these
four states represent about oneha Of the aggregate
production Of the country or the large cities of the
United States, New York ranks first in the same
spect followed by Philadelphia, st. Louis, Milwaukee,
Brooklyn, Cincinnati, Boston, Chicago, Newark, and
Albany. Great progress has also been made In the
poration Of beer especially since the international
position at Philadelphia In the year 1870 1t amount
ed to only l076 dozen bottles in 1876 to T045 Dozen
and In 1877 to 37676 dozen-an increase Of 437 per
cent In 1880 the expectation amounted to lag, 739
bottles, total increase Of IS $50 per cent The
cant the highest figure having been reached in 1877,
when 1t amounted TO 1 pa gallons. Most Of the beer
exported goes to Mexico, Central America, the West
Indies, Brazil and Japan. The aggregate expectation,
1t will be noticed, is small in comparison with the
quantity consumed In the United States The increase
Of beer production and consumption has therefore in
proportion ouIstripped the increase Of population at
tremendous rate. HoH far II has served to diminish
the consumption of other alcoholics drinks has not
yet been shown by statistics and ii may be dihcu to
do 1t with any high degree OF accuracy because much
of the alcohol manufactured is used in various indus
tries. II is not improbable that the increased quantity
Of beer consumed has had the effect of decreasing the
vice Of drunkenness in its most vicious form; but in
this respect also statistics are wanting. Ono thing
however, is absolutely certain nobody will say that
the vice Of drunkenness has increased in this country
in proportion to the increase In the production and
consumption Of beer.-N. Y, Euening Post.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-06-09

Frederick Douglass, in his Decoration-day
grafton at Rochester, said "Unquestionably,
the condition of the freedmen is not what it
ought to be- but the cause of their affiiction
is not to be found in their freedom, but in
their former slavery. 1t does not belong to
the present, but to the past. They were
emancipated under unfavorable conditions.
They were literally turned loose, hungry and
naked, to the open sky. They had neither
home, friends, nor money. Such was their
destitution at the start that their enemies
oonsoled themselves with the thought that
hunger and exposure would soon thin them
out, and possibly destroy them altogether.
Those who now carp at their destitution and
speak of them with contempt should judge
them leniently, aud measure their progress,
not from the heights to which they may in
time attain, but from the depths from which
they have come. They have perished from
neither cold nor hunger, and from the last
United States census we learn that their in
crease is ten per cent greater than that of the
native white population of the South"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-06-09

HoPEs AND FKARs PoR ART. By VIM. Harris. BoH-
ton: Roberts Brothers, 1882.
DOROTHY. A Country Story in Eleglac Verse; Bos-
ton: Roberts Brothers, 1882.
NUMA RoUMERTAS (AlphOnse Daudet's latest novel;.
Translated from the French by Virginia Champln.
Boston, Lee 4 Shepard.
THE PErrIBoNE NAME. BY Margaret Sidney. The
VII Series. Boston: d. LOthrop Co. Price 81 .25.
THE APPLEDoRE COOKBOOK. Containing practical
recipes for plain aud rich cooking. By NJ. Paroa.
New edition. Boston: Andrew Y. Graves. S1.25.
UNIvERsAL INTEREST TABLES, at L. 8, 6, 7, 8 and 10
per cent. Computed by Prof. Geo. VIM. Jones Of
Cornell University, and guarnteed correct. Ithaca,
N. Y: Finch Apgar, 1882.
CENTENNIAL ANSIvERsARY of the Independence OF
the State Of Vermont and the Battle of Bennington,
August Is and TO- 1877. Neutrality-suspicious.
Windsor. Rutland: Tuttle 4 Co.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-06-09
IN GENERAL.


Oscar Wilde's farewell lecture in Boston
was delivered Friday afternoon to about three
hundred persons.
"A skull of heroic size and peculiar form
alton has been discovered among the relics of
the mound builders in the Red River Valley,
Miun.
The estimated loss in wages TO the work
ingmen of tho West by the strike in the iron
mills amounts to from $3.50, 600 to $500, 600
day.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean says "The
Texas wheat crop now being harvested is the
finest ever grown. Many fields yield 80 bush
els per acre"
Tho late Ex-Governor @. 9. Washburn,
of Wisconsin, who left an estate valued at
So, 500, 600, bequeathed $4,000 for a me-
mortal orphan asylum at Minneapolis as q
tribute to his mother, and $50, 900 for pub
lie library at La Crosse.
The significant announcement is made
that M. Damala, the husband of Sarah Bern
hardt, is reading with close attention all the
works on duelling, fencing pistol-shooting,
ETC., he can procure. The course of study is
varied by daily target-shooting and practice
with foils.
The Canadian press are congratulating
their readers upon the fact that the Canadian
Pacific Railway, the construction of which
threatened to impose serious pecuniary bur-
den upon the Dominion, is being paid for by
the sales of lands along its route, and is be-
coming great factor in promoting the pros
perity of the country.
Mrs Josephine Reeves of Bridgeton, N.
j., dreamed Sunday morning, 29th ult., that
man was trying to steal her baby, an infant
only six weeks old. She awoke, screaming
for her mother, and clasping her baby to her
breast. Her mother flew to her, but the child
had been smothered by the desperate grasp
of the frightened woman.
Thomas McElrath, of Marlborough, Ulster
County, New York, q wellto-do, hale, and
hearty farmer, has not slept wink in thir'
teen years. His case has batied noted ply
sicians, and he has tried every known remedy
for it without avail During the silent
watches of the night" he says, 81 never nod
nor doze, but pass the time in reading the
| Scriptures"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-06-09

1t is estimated that Russia will lose by the
Jewish exodus the enormous sum of e22, ,OOO,-
600.
An incident of the recent observation of
thesun's eclipse by English, French, and Italian
astronomers In Upper Egypt, was the discov-
cry of an unknown comet close to the sun,
and the determining of its position by photo
graphy. Spectroseopic observations made
Just before and in the course of the period of
totality by the French astronomers gave re-
suits indicating a lunar atmosphere. For the
first time the spectrum of the corona was sue
oessfully photographed.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-06-09
SCOTT DUNKLEE.
Administrators Sale.

= shall sel AT Public Auction at the dwelling house
recently occupied by the late sophronta Mann in
the village Of West Dover, Yt on Saturday June ~
A. d. 1852 at one O'Clock p. NJ. the Homestead form
ery occupied by said sophronia Mann, in said village
consisting Of House, Barn and Lot. Also one pew In
the church situated In the aforesaid village one horse
shed near said church. and variety Of personal prop
erty. o. r. BUIrEhflELhi A1In Ana ds
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-06-09
ADMINISTRATORS SALE!

7 SHALL SELL at Public Auction, at the dwelling
/ house formerly occupied by sophronia Mann, in
the village OF West Dover, Vt, on Saturday June ~
Dover, known the Miner and Snow farm, situated
about three miles from Dover centre and about two
inca ete o. u. BUTTERFIELD,
Admir- Dr.. swifts Estate.
Wilmington, May 20, 1882. 21-2S
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-06-09

A Cincinnati girl has sued her mother for
slander, demanding damages in $4,000. A
Boston girl could settle the affair with the
broom handle.-BOstOn Herald.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-01

CHARLES FECHTER's SILVER,
19s p,eces cost 81 price 800 Also an elegant Tea
Tinany's make. cost $500 price SOU. AuoVnoi '' Wv"
price S'oo o'''' Val j. ii. JOHNSTON, $50 Bowery