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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-03
An Age of Assassination.

The number of assassinations since
1879 shows the loose state of opinion
that exists in many minds on political
crime; and so does the rank of many of
the victims. Two Cars of Russia, two
or three Turkish Sultans, French King,
a King Of Sweden, two Presidents of the
United States, British Premier, Pres
ident of Greece, Governor General of
India and French Royal Duke on. lie
Duo de Berri, father Of NJ. lie Comte de
Chambord, who claims to be the legiti-
mate King of France and Navarre)-
these are the highest of the persons as
sassinated within about ninety years.
Conspirators and assassins sought to kill
George ILL.,, Napoleon, Wellington,
Louis Philippe, President Jackson,
Gar Nicholas, Napoleon ILL.,, Secretary
Seward, Sir Robert Peel and others. OF
reigning sovereigns and statesmen who
yet are active, Queen Empress Victoria,
Emperor William, Alexander I'LL, King
Humbert and Prince Bismarck all have
beer objects of attack by assassins; and
perhaps Mr.. Gladstone has been con-
spired against with view to his violent
death. It is not improbable that Mr..
Forster was set down for q similar fate.
The attempt of Thistlewood to destroy
almost the entire British Government
was an anticipation of Nihilistic modes
of operation. He expected to destroy
more than dozen Ministers at one blow,
and the threatened Ministers were so far
alarmed as to return public thanks for
their escape. This was at the beginning
Of 1920, and so it can be considered, by
old men, a contemporary event. Polit.
ical Nihilism makes of assassination a
regular mode of party warfare and it is
supposed that it means to act at the ap-
preaching coronation of Alexander III.
True, assassination was the regular thing
In Russia, long before Nihilism was
heard Of but then it was regular thing
Of the palace, not party, and in little
more than a century two Cars persisted
by it Peter I'LL, in 1852, and Paul, in
1901. Many years after 1901 it went
down among the people, and now it is
less palatial than popular and it may
accomplish great change in the Great
Empire. It is quite possible that the
strength of Nihilism and the numbers
of Nihilists are exaggerated and over
rated; but the fact is clear that party
of some power exists in Russia that &C
cepts assassination in its highest form
that Of regicide-as legitimate force in
! politics. It is equally true that the
civilized world does not appear to be
much affronted by the existence of such
party, in what but recently was sup.
posed the most stable of nations, be.
cause of its Governments strength.
This is altogether unlike to anything
ever before known in Christendom
and it indicates either a general change
in sentiment, Or disposition to make
an exception in the case Of Russia. In
either case, the fact is important, for il
what is commonly condemned in civil
lied countries, yet known to some ex-
tent in them all, is to be tolerated in re-
gard to one member of the Christian
commonwealth, who shall say that the
evil will not spread over the whole
world?-B0stO1a Traveller.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-03
About Worms.

Darwin, in his latest work, estimates
that there are in gardens So, 767 worms
to the acre, and that they would weigh
35S pounds. Having four or five giz-
yards apiece, each worm is able to di-
gest large amount of coarse food, and
to bring sixteen tons per acre to the SUR
face per annum. Mx. Darwin says that
a field near his house has been cleared
of cobble-stones within his remembrance.
and this not so much from the fact that
the pebbles have been undermined as
because fine earth has been brought to
the surface. Many Of the foundations
of Roman buildings recently discovered
in Great Britain are preserved under
meath this MISUNDERSTANDING de-
post of "earth mold" which is from
two to three feet deep over the ruins al
Wroxeter.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-03
Rks4l4zB e~ses,e--
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.
/, THE ancients believed that the lyn-
could see through stone walls.

THE ancients believed that the lynx
could see through stone walls.
The tusks of q full-grown male elc-
plant sometimes are ten feet long.
IN Rome, bankrupts were condemned
to wear in public black bonnets of a
sugar-loaf form.
In an edition of Ptolemy's geography,
1910, double tailed mermaid figures il
ore of the plates.
The Hottentots say that if lion, in
taking his prey, misses his leap, he viii
not follow itany further but, as though
he were ashamed, he turns round and
slowly, step by step, measures the ex-
act length between the two points, as if
to find how much too short, Or how
much beyond the mark, he had made
his leap.
AMONG the latest uses to which saw
dust has been applied is the manufact-
ure Of car wheels. A writer states that
sawdust Car wheels. sawdust brick, saw
dust fence posts, railroad ties, and even
sawdust window and door frames, wains
coting and molding, begin to appear
among the possibilities Of the Immediate
future.
A CURIOUS proof of the prevalence of
the English language throughout the
globe is afforded by statement in the
Newspaper and Bank Directory of the
World" that out of "a, 274 newspapers
and periodicals which were published
in 1880, no fewer than 16, 500 were print
ed in our own tongue. Nearly half the
remainder were in German, quarter
in French, and the greater bulk Of the
rest in Spanish. Daily papers numbered
,, 1920, and the gross circulation of the
whole periodical press is estimated at
10. 59s, 100000.
In Switzerland, razors, pocket-knives.
! etc., made from English cast steel are
tempered by immersing the blades at
a dark cherry red into a bath composed
of four parts of finely powdered yellow
resin, two parts Of fish oil, to which is
added, in very hot state, one part OF
melted tallow, and allowing them to
cool perfectly; after which they are
heated without wiping them, and hard
ened in water in the ordinary way. The
blades hardened by this process are
found to be more uniformly tempered
than by any other, making it possible
to produce an exceedingly fine cutting
edge.
THERE died in England not long since
mailman, in whose body was found
twenty buckles, fourteen pieces of glass,
ten pebbles, three knotted strings, 8
piece of leather, fish-hook, pin, nine
copper buttons and l, 1872 nails and tacks.
A French convict carried around in his
stomach fifty-two objects, including sew
eral knives and piece of hoop-iror
four inches long. A sailor died in g
London hospital few years ago who
when he was drunk, swallowed pen.
knives and and clasp-knives by the half
dozen. In Boston, in 1906, he swal-
lowed four in one evening, and next
morning, encouraged by the notoriety
swallowed eight more. He was finally
seized with vomiting, and was only re.
ieved by heroic measures, but his stom.
ach was ruined. But the next Decem
Der, being again drunk, he swallowed
nine clasp-kniyes, and was severa
months in getting rid of them. He did
not, in fact, get rid Of all of them, ani
died of slow endaciation four years after
| ward. - 800
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-03

sTve stolen coat, said man to a
lawyer, 'sand 1 want you to defend me.
Think you can prove me innocent?"
ooh yes; we can prove that you were in
an adjoining township when the coat
was stolen and that the prosecution was
malicious" Glow much will you
charger .What sort of a coat is iit?''
''First rate; never been worn any"
s'Well, 1 wont charge you anything.
Just give me the coat
A French photographer boasts Of
having been able to catch the impress
sion of flying bird. There is nothing
at all wonderful about that. An Austin
man who has no scientific attainments
whatever. without any effort on his
part, caught the impression of flying
bat. It was a very clear impression.
The flying bat was a brick-bat. He
was offering resolution at a ware.
meeting when the accident occurred.
A Jolly looking German was quietly
walking down the street when he was
approached by man who said; s'Hal-
10, Joe! What are you doing here?"
The old man looked up and said:, But I
am not here at ALL" ssNot here" said
the man; "what do you mean by that?'
wen, now, you see my name is not
Joe, and SO how could I be here? You
must mean some other man."
A man never loses anything by being
polite. A Buffalo gentleman waiting
for train at Aylmer, Ont, saw wom-
an slip upon something and nearly fall,
He hurried to assist her and helped her
rise, and as he did so she dropped a val
Use which proved to be his own, which
he had left in the depot few minutes
before, and which she was attempting
to steal.
Talk about stopping the drinking
habits OF the people!'' exclaimed the
lecturer; ''There is but one way to do
lt-you must remove the cause ssTrue
f'r you, old fell, shouted demoralized
nearer, ''true Fl you. That's what I've
been trying to do all my life. Bring on
yer cause If yer want it removed"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-03
Conditions of Health.

The conditions of health are few but
imperative.
1. Pure air.
2. Pure and nutritious food.
3. Proper exercise.
4. Undisturbed sleep.
5. Regularity.
6. Temperance in all things.
Z. Pleasant and active mental, moral
and social conditions.
8. Right bodily positions.
9. Cleanliness.
10. Sunlight of Heath.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-03
How 1t Looks to Working Journalist.

There was time when the editors of
New York papers were working men,
who came to their Offices and worked
among their staff, and gave spirit and
competition to the whole thing. You
will not find old men around the news
paper office, and giving enthusiastic
editorial work when the editor from his
house obtains the news through the
telephone, through which he sends down
his orders, and has the proofs sent to
him. That was not the way Bennett,
Raymond, Greeley and Bryant worked.
But the system has gone through those
New York papers until they are spirit
less, heavy and formal, and the workers
on the papers get no encouragement
from their editors. Thomas Kinsella,
in an interview.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-03

We think we 60 in for pretty costly
trousseaux, but they are nothing COM
pared with those provided among Paris
ian swells in the last century. That of
Mile. de Matignon, who in 17SS married
the Baron de Montmorency, cost $780,
600. 1t included 1000 shifts.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-03

1T takes girl about four hours longer
to wash the front windows of house
than the back windows.
A West end boy, whose schoolmates
had put pin in his chair, had the
nerve tc keep his seat and even look
unconcerned until he had chance to
extract it unnoticed, 1t was tough for
him. but he knew he had the satisfac-
ton OF filling their souls with disappoint-
ment.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-03

Customer-'I don't know how it is,
but my clothes never fit me nicely. Now
you always make my friend Capt. Stoll-
ert's coat to sit beautifullyw Tailor
eyes, sir, but he's got shoulders to hang
'em on If a gentleman's made like a
champagne bottle, no tailor can fit him"
Exit customer in dudgeon.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-03

Two ladies were talking about wax
figure show about to be opened. One
said: '"There are to be costumes of
every country since the creation of the
world" Gives will not be very hard
to make" ''But it will be very hard
to wear"
On a crowded sidewalk: Indignant
Female-"Sir, would feel obliged to
you if you would keep that umbrella of
yours to yourself and not poke me with
it again!' InsolenFwretch- ma am
Yes, ma'am! didn't mean to do it! I
ant the prod-a-gal son. ma'amr'
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-06-02

minds eye who, we know, can pass
through the ordeal unscathed, and come
out with honor to himself and grati6ca-
tion to his intimate friends. That man
is John w. Armstrong, of Sacramento,
formerly of this county, and whose
name we take the liberty of suggesting
to the Democracy of this State as amost
suitable and available candidate for the
Supreme Judgeship next Fall. He would
be an honor to the Berch and the State,
and we mention his name in this con-
nection thus early in order that the peo-
pie may have an opportunity to discuss
his qualifications.
The Oroville Mercury is equally warm
in its preference for Judge Armstrong.
The Yolo Democrat, and other Demo
cratic journals, express decided sense
of his merits. So strong is this testi-
mony that Judge Armstrong may safely
be classed amongst the number of eligi-
bles from whom the two Democratic can
didates VIII be selected.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-06-02

The Democracy this year are happy
in the possession of remarkable num-
Der of good lawyers and good Judges
whose friends are pressing them for
preferment to the tribunal of last resort.
Conspicuous amongst them is Judge
John w. Armstrong, of Sacramento
county. This gentleman seems to have
commended himself to the good will of
the people of the counties adjoining
Sacramento and of the Northern coun-
ties to remarkable degree, and his
friends ramify throughout the State at
large. The Amador Dispatch has the
following pleasant things to say of its
sometime fellow citizen:
If there is any Office within the gift of
the people of this State which should be
filled only by good, true and able men,
that position is upon the Supreme Court
bench. The merits and demerits of the
man should be thoroughly looked into
before he receives nomination for that
all-important trust. He should not
only be man of profound legal learn
ing, but should be unencompassed
by the dangerous influences of
cliques, machine politicians, corporate
schemes, ETC., ETC., and under these
points he should undergo the minutest
criticism We have man in our
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-06-02

The cloud, now no bigger than a
mans hand, but which may shortly
overspread the whole European horizon,
that at present rests on Egypt, may owe
its origin to Bismarck, or it may be
really an outcome of the councils of the
Sublime Porte, anxious to reincorporate
Egypt into the Ottoman Empire, in re-
atty as well as in name. If the latter
hypothesis is the true one, no great in
ternational complications may follow.
But if the grim Prince of Blood and
Iron is at the bottom of the "ruction,
the worst forebodings of the interna-
tional quidnuncs will be more than re-
allied. 1t will then be question of
''shut up or put up" to employ the
curt and somewhat vulgar phraseolopy
of the race course, with England and
France. We can scarcely think that
Germany is prepared to take the risk of
such an aggressive programme, with
Russia, France and England as her op-
ponents, and only Austria as treach-
erous ally, prepared to betray her, as
the same unstable power betrayed Ma
poleon, after the disastrous Russian
campaign of the opening of the present
century. We may be sure that prac.
tical diplomacy is now at work to ascer-
tain whether the events just transpir-
ing in Egypt have the lesser or the
larger significance. If the former, Arab
Bey will not long dominate in the coun-
ellis of the Khedive, to which he has
been forcibly restored; if the latter,
Egypt will soon be re-absorbed into the
dominions of the Padishah, or England,
France and Russia will have to furnish
the good and sufficient reasons why she
should not be SO swallowed, in true ana
conda fashion.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-06-02

THE sapient individual who writes a
letter, published in yesterdays Erpress,
headed democratic Boss Work." pro-
ceeds to say, "Our (?) candidates will be
exposed to raking Republican fire dur
ing upwards of four months, with their
ammunition nearly exhausted before the
other ticket comes into the field, etc. "
Now let us see how this is. The De-
mocracy make their nominations on or
after june 10th, the Republicans on or
after August 30th. This is, at the ut
most two months and ten days, instead
of the upwards of four months" of the
Eapress's pundit. Quite evidently this
interesting scribe has the faculty of see-
ing double.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-06-02
A Singular Find.
ATLANTA Constitution.)

DIR. Cary Cox has a gold mine in Cher
okee county. The other day the hands
were sinking a shaft, and when six feet
below the surface they came upon two
pieces of marble hewn into the shape
and size of the human head. The work
had evidently been done with good
tools and, while not entirely finished,
showed that it was skilled artist who
handled the chisel. The heads were
found under six feet of clay, which, to
all appearances, had never. been dis
turbed and lay directly upon bed of
slate. Near the mine is bed of
marble such as the heads are hewn from.
The question is, who made the heads
and how did they get under six feet of
clay!
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-06-02
Order to show cause on application Of
guardian for Order of Sale
of Real Estate.

1t appearing to this Court that from the peti.
ton this day presented and filed by Luisa Ma
chado de Chavez, the guardian of the persons and
estates of the above named minors, praying for
an order Of sale of certain real estate belonging to
her said wards that it is necessary that such real
estate should be sold
II is hereby ordered, that the next of kin of the
said wards, and all persons interested in the said
estate, appear before this Court on Friday, the
14th day OF July, A. ID. 1882, at 10 o'clock A. NJ,
at the Court room of this Court, wherein V. Z.
Howard, one of the Judges of said Court presides,
at the Court House in tho city of Los Angeles, in
said county of Los Angeles, then and there to
show cause why an order should not be granted
for the sale Of such estate
And 1t is further ordered, that copy of this
order be published at least three successive weeks
before the said day of hearing, in the Los Angeles
DAILY HERALD, newspaper printed and pub
lished in said county of Los Angeles.
Dated June 1st, 1882.
V. f. HOWARD,
je2td Superior Judge.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-06-02

FRANCE, perhaps the most intensely
active nation on earth, from an intellec-
tual point of view, is often ruled by jour-
nalists. Such men as Theirs, Guizot and
Gambetta, have been painstaking news
paper hacks in their day. In England,
more in her cultured Addisonian days
than latterly, although latterly they
crop up often, contributors to the fore
runners of the inchoate journals
of these times, were often ac-
corded most digni6ed position.
To-day Labouchere, the editor of
Truth, is perhaps the most mhucn-
tial single member of Parliament.
In the United States many of
the most influential men who
have figured in public life have been
newspaper men. To say nothing of
Benjamin Franklin, the best and
greatest of all our public mon,
after Washington and Jefferson, a
great many of the men illus
trious in American history have gradu-
ated, through the printers devil phase
of newspaper Office, into the office of
lawyer. Simon Cameron who, for
twenty years, controlled the politics
of the United States, notwithstanding
his dismissal as Secretary Of War, by
President Lincoln, graduated from a
provincial editor into provincial
banker, and from provincial banker
into the Deus er Machina of the Repub-
lican party. 1t will not do for the pro-
fession to become intoxicated with the
success of certain representative men,
bers of the guild: but it remains true,
nevertheless, that the best and most
sagacious statesmen known on the Amer
lean continent have been men who stuck
type in their earlier days. This unques-
toned history makes us welcome the
candidacy of such men as Thompson, of
the Sonoma Democrat, and Green, of
the Celusa San. The party can't go
amiss in advancing to stations of promi-
nence men who have, day in and day
out, shown their devotion to Democratic
principles, and their capability to do
hearty service for their party, by up
holding the standard of Democracy.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-06-02
MIR. ALExANpE. Dunn. of Gait. Sac

Mr.. ALEXANDER DUNN, of Gait, Sac
ramento county, is leading aspirant
for the Democratic nomination for Sur
veyor- General. He was once an editor,
but that of itself constitutes no bar to
political preferment. As County Sur
veyor for six years, and County Clerk
for two years, of Solano comfy, Mr..
Dunn won golden opinions. Should he
be nominated by the San Jose Conven-
tion, for what is very important office
in California, the party would be guar
anteed an official who would reflect
honor upon it.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-06-02

THANK God there are multitudes of
Democrats from choice and from love
men who would as lief think of tearing
the wig from an aged and revered
grandmother as to sit around carking
and barking, in the interest of the Re-
publican party, at their time-honored
and, we firmly believe, victorious
organization. We have watched the
party ever since we were small boy;
and we have yet to be able to recall the
first instance in which it ever won by
temporizing with the enemy; and, of all
enemies, the fellow who is too good to
belong to the Democratic party, unless
his man is nominated, is the worst. We
will impart to all the world and the rest
of mankind the information that, unless
we can win victory in California this
year, irrespective of political pat
rons, while we shall contribute
all in our power to bring it about,
responsive to loyal Democratic usage,
we shall not value it half as much
as if the party had had sense enough to
single ont good, clean and earnes!
Democrat, who would value his success
simply because it advanced high the
gonfalon of the party he loved. In fact,
after We had won it, it would turn, like
Dead Sea apples, to ashes on our lips.
And there are tens of thousands of the
''unterrified" who agree with us. Th,
prayer goes up from thousands of home
steads that, this year, not the voice O
the loud-mouthed, but of the tried ant
true, shall be heard in the Democratic
State Convention; and, if it is, victory,
rose-wreathed and smiling, disencum.
bered of innumerable political frauds, will
reward the party.