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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-26
"CRECKS."

A "society" item says it is now the
fashion for the bridegroom and bride to
receive checks for wedding presents.
The custom is an old one. A man who
married rich young woman last spring
received big check about an hour after
the ceremony was performed. 1t came
from police officer. In less than ten
hours he would have taken passage with
his bride for Europe, if he had not beer
checked by the officers. He had led
.heckered career with false checks and
such. The bride could not check her
Gears, and her father could hardly check
an impulse to kick the villain inside ont.
We never heard of society wedding at
which there were so many checks
N07ristOsDn Herald.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-26
SPOTTED TAILS JOKE.

One day Capt. Lee was talking with
Spotted Tail and others about honest
oeople and the keeping of ones word.
"There's no such thing as an honest
man," said the Captain, iokingly.
"There used to be, however. In for
mer times honest men always used to
have a bunch of hair growing in the
palm of the right hand. I don't see
but a few lunches in my hand"
Spotted Tail stepped up to him and.
shaking hands with him, said:
Chow! How! [ used to have .
great big bunch OF hair in the palm Of
my hand, but it has all been worn off by
shaking hands with the whites"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-26
GAUTIER'S CAT.

Theophile Gautier, who has lately
given the world an account of what he
calls his Private Menagerie," NELL
tons one of the rare cases in which
pussy was most completely taken aback,
and lost all presence of mind and self
reliance at once. The cat was accus-
toned to live in perfect intimacy with
the writer, sleeping at his feet on his
bed; dreaming on the arm Of his easy
chair while he was writing following
him in his garden as he walked up and
down the long avenues; keeping him
company at meals, and, as he adds, not
infrequently intercepting the morsel on
the road between the plate and the lips.
One fine day friend, setting out on his
travels, left his parrot in his charge dur
ing his absence. The poor bird sat dis
consulate on the top of his stand, while
the cat stared at the strange sight and
tried to gather up all the strays and
waits of natural history which she might
have picked up on the roof, or in the
yard and the garden. The writer fol-
owed her thoughts in her large green
eyes, and read there clearly the words,
1t must be green chicken!'' There
upon pussy jumped down from his writ
ing-table and assumed, in dark corner,
the air Of a panther in the jungle, lying
in wait for a delicate deer; crouching
fiat down, the head low, the back
stretched out at full length, the elbows
out, and the eyes fixed immovably on
the bird. The parrot had followed all
her movements with nervous anxiety !;
he raised his feathers, sharpened his
bill, stretched out his claws and evil
IDENTIFY prepared for war.
The cat lay still, but the writer read
again in her eyes, Ono doubt, though
green, the chicken must be good to eat. I"
Suddenly her back was arched like a
bow that is drawn, and with one superb
bound she was on the perch. The par
rot, seeing the great danger, lifted up
his sharp, eager voice and screamed out,
"Have you breakfasted, Jack ?" The
voice frightened pussy out of her wits.
A trumpet sounded in her ears, pile of
crockery breaking near her, a pistol
fred close to her head, could not have
frightened her more terribly. All her
ideas were overthrown; her eyes said
clearly, "This is not chicken; this is
gentleman" And the parrot rang out
louder than ever
Quand j. al bu du vim clairet
Tout tourne, tout tourne au cabaret.
The cat cast an anxious look at her
master, leaped down in sheer terror and
hid under the bed, from whence no
threat and no caress could bring her out
for the day.-Ladies' Treasury
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-26
GO SLOW.
BY MADGE ELLIOTT.

When you pair of bright eyes meet,
That make your heart IN rapture beat;
When one voice seems to you more sweet
Than any other voice you know
Go slow, my friend, 60 slow!
For brightest eyes have oft betrayed,
And sweetest voice of youth and maid
The very falsest thing have said,
And thereby wrought a deal Of woe:
Go slow, my friend, go slow!
When you're convinced you are poet,
And, wishing all the world to know it,
Call on some editor to show it,
Your verses full of glow and blow,
Go slow, my friend, 60 slow!
For many one has done the same,
And thought to grasp the hand of Fame,
And yet has never seen his name
In print. And why-waste-bas know
Go slow, my friend, so slow!
When you to greed for money yield,
and long the mighty power to WELD
That's always found in golden field,
With senseless pomp and pride and show,
Go slow, my friend, go slow!
For thousands, tempted by the glare
Of wealth, have fallen in the snare
Setfor the thief. And now despair,
Regret and shame have brought them low;
Go slow, my friend, so slew!
The good old earth is never wrong;
Each of her works takes just so long;
Months pass before happy throng
Of daisies in the meadows grow.
Go slow, my friend, so slow!
And spring gives life to summers flowers,
And summers sun and summers showers
Prepare the fruit for autumn bowers,
And autumn frost brings winter snow
Go GLOW, my friend, so slowl
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-26
THE ENG11sHMAN ABROAD.

Odd as the ordinary Englishman holds
the right of being at home, it is in going
abroad that he lays himself out to emu
late the grotesques of the stage. At
home he incases his legs in trousers
chat leave the spectator at loss to de-
eide whether they grew with the wear
er's growth or whether they are basted
Oh the limbs and then pasted. His coat,
too, is generally garment of fantastic
disproportion to his brawny frame, and
his headgear-well, there is really no
adequate illustration for this jaunty
compromise between tin cup and
stew pan. It is, however. when they set
out for over the sea that the Briton and
Britoness give loose to what, In the cur
rent slang of the day, may be called the
crankeries of personal adornment. Are
they not known, these artless guys,
from Boulogne to grand Cairo, from
Berlin to Cadiz, from Nice to Pera,
wherever Cooks droves Of tourists have
scorched the trail of travel? Are not
their ways, their garments and their
serenity the inexpressible joy Of the
Paris gamin? To do them welcome
doesn't every poutique from the Boule-
ward Sebastopol to the Church OF the
Madelaine cordially announcessthat ION
spoke English here ?" 1t is here that
the zone" who speaks English is al
ways mysteriously absent when the con-
fidirg Briton presents himself to the ac-
commodating Partisan; so that as aconse-
ouence he is compelled to make his bar
gain by signs, and that in the end he is
neatly feeced by the thrifty son of Gaul.
-Phil0delpRiG Times.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-26
SAVED HIS FARM.

A native of Flint River township went
limping into the Office Of the new doctor
with the blue-and-gold sign, and the
Latin diplomas, and the new buggy, and
the chestnut horse with a blaze face.
cts the rheumatic, doc," groaned the
patient; "my whole back is jest gone
with it. I'm one broad ache from the
back of my neck clean down to the hips.
I'm suffering the torrents of the -"
"Let me see your tongue" said the new
doctor. "Ah. yes; I see, I see. That
will do. Take this prescription, get it
filed, and use as directed. -Four dol
lars" "By hockey" said the afflicted
one, as he hobbled away, "ef amt the
luckiest man III Flint River -Four dol
lars for lookin' at my tongue. An 1
was jest on the hare point of askin' him
to look at my whole back" And he
breathed hard as he thought by what
narrow escape he had saved his whole
farm. -Burli,agton Ha,0k-Eye.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-26
NO COUNTRY FOE JrM-JAMS.

From reliable authority comes the as
surance that they have neither frogs,
rats nor snakes in Greenland. When a
man gets the delirium tremens there he
must be at loss for suitable objects at
which to look back over his shoulder
with glazing, bloodshot eyes as he shoots
out of third-story window into the
mysteries of the great unknown land be-
vond the river. Photos of Dennis Kear-
ney and Eli Perkins have long been on
sale in that country, and the Greenland
topers may use these as basis upon
which to erect their tremens. Detroit
Free Press.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-26
THE ART OF GETTING THINGS DONE

Every housekeeper knows that Sat-
urday night often finds great many
things undone which Monday morning
had confidently counted upon doing.
The Interruptions Of the week have been
many. An unexpected headache invaded
one day and cut it off from activity.
Friends, arriving on another, brought
happy greetings and sunshine, but put
the work aside and disturbed the plans.
Though there has been no idleness, yet
the accomplishments of the six days
have been less than the ambitious pro-
gramme had determined them to be.
What is the secret of getting things
done? In what fine art of system and
good management does it consist? We
read Of the wonderful executive ability
Of Mary Somerville, or of Madame Bun
sen, and are amazed that they contrived
to fill their lives so full, while ours are,
by comparison, SO empty. Possibly our
conditions are less fortunate in some par
ticulars than were those of the women
whose memoirs we read. They may
have had stronger health than we, and
no doubt they were assisted by better
service than we may ever expect to have.
Still, whatever be the environments, the
secret of power always lies, not in them,
but in the individual. The person who
acconplishes most, bustles least. This
may be trite remark, but it verifies it.
self by daily observation. Talk, pro-
LESSONS, voluble statements Of what one
means to do, usually consume the ener-
gy which might else have been expend-
ed in real work. Trying to do too many
things at time is fatal to successful &C
compishment. So, too, is listening to
the advice of a great number, instead OF
keeping firmly on in your own way. A
young housekeeper is sometimes bewil-
dered by the various counsels which she
receives. It is wise not to attempt too
much. One person cannot live precise
ly according to another persons pat
tern. Steady going forward in any task,
little to-day, a little more tomorrow,
letting no day pass without its line, with
perseverance and patience in whatever
is undertaken, seldom fail of solid re-
wards. Christian Zntelligencer.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-26
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE.

Andrew Stevenson, Of Virginia, was
Speaker of the Twentieth, Twenty-frst,
Twenty-second and Twenty-third Con-
crosses. Nathaniel Macon, of North
Carolina Schuyler Colfax, Of Indiana;
James G. Blaine, of Maine, and Samuel
J. Randall, of Pennsylvania, have each
held the Office three terms. Henry
Clay was Speaker Of the'Twelfth, Thir-
reenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Six
tenth Congresses. F. A. Muhlenburg,
of Pennsylvania Jonathan Dayton. of
New Jersey Joseph B. Varnum, OF
Massachusetts James z. Polk, Of Ten
nessee, and Lynn Boyd, OF Kentucky,
each presided over Congress for two
terms.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-26
BoMBARDMKNT OF THE EARTH.

BOMBARDMKNT OF THE EARTH.
"It's lucky for US that the earth has
such good bomb-proof on the skyward
side," said the astronomer, as he stood
coatless and bareheaded on the roof,
watching the meteors.
"Why? asked the reporter, painting
as he clambered up through the scuttle
hole.
"You'd have seen reason enough If
you had been up here with me for the
last two hours" said the astronomer.
"Why the earth has been undergoing a
regular bombardment. It's not over
yet. Look at that fellow how he skins |!
You would call it a shooting star. Well,
there's as much reason for calling it a
celestial shell. That meteoroid was
moving twenty or thirty miles second !;
yet it could not get through the bomb
proof that protects the earth.
"Where is the bomb-proof
"Why, right under your nose; all
around you; it's the atmosphere. When
the meteoroids strike the air that sur
rounds the earth the heat produced in
consequence of their tremendous veloci-
ty runs up million degrees or more a
second, and in a twinkling they are
changed to vapor. If they could get
through the atmosphere they would
cake it lively for us. No man could tell
It what instant he might be struck down
by shot from tho sky, fol meteoroids
are plunging into the atmosphere all the
time at the rate of several millions day
for the whole earth. At certain times, as
about the 10th of August and the 18th
Of November, they come in showers, and
fairly lombard the earth. The soft
air that fans the cheek is to most of
these projectiles from space AS i'm
oenetrable as wall OF steel.
Some of them, however. are able to
penetrate to the earth, but they are COM
paratively few in number. When me-
teoroid strikes the earth it is called an
eerolite. No good museum Of mineralo-
gy is without one or more specimens OF
these black-crusted, non-like bodies.
Humboldt relates that two Swedish sail
orswere killed. by an aerolite on board their
ship in 1874. The matched roofs of
houses have been set on fire by aerolites,
and sheep and other animals have been
struck dead in the fields by them.
"Wel, there are modern instances
enough. We are no safer than our fore
fathers. Hardly year passes without
one OF more masses of meteoric stone
falling in the neighborhood of human
habitations. A man is in more danger
Of being killed by lightning than by an
aerolite, but it would not be so if the air
did not protect him."
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-26

IT is stated that iridium is found in
abundance in Oregon and Washington
Territory. 1t is thought that Hollands
process for fusing and molding iridium
is likely to cause this metal to become
source of considerable wealth in the
region mentioned.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-26
OUR JUVENILES
Grantl,,,an.n.a,s APRONS.

dTOnU01Untn10S ApTOuSs
Three of them, rufied and shining and white
The aprons that grandmamma made;
She kissed me" You're always to wear them te
school g.S
To keep your dress tidy" she said
But oh, as look at the stitches go fine,
The rufies and each dainty band,
They seem more like keepsakes than everyday
clothes,
The work Of that dear wrinkled hand.
And still, she would rather I'd use them, know,
So lwear them just as was told;
The fine, even sewing SO patiently done
Will be there the same when they're old
And then will fold them with lavender sweet
And lay them away in drawer,
To show to my children what grandmamma did
When she was almost eighty-four.
Youths Companion.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-26
r lat UNLIT TOMB COMM ONLY DE-
NOMINATED n PARIOR.

A widespread nuisance with which the
people have been struggling ever since
America cast loose from England and
trimmed her own sails, is that unlit
tomb denominated parlor. If house
has but three rooms in it, one is set
aside for parlor, if the family has to
dine out under shed. Various guessea
have been made as to the necessity for
the parlor, but no one has ever solved
the conundrum. As matter of history,
it is the drawing.room on small scale,
and poor imitation at that. It is the
receptacle for gloomy old pictures, O
somber array of furniture, melancholy
light, an expensive carpet anda lot OF
useless trinkets. We had forgotten to
mention the album. No parlor is COM
plete without an album in which to
store away pictures of relatives in unbe-
coming and ancient costumes. AS we
remarked, no man has ever yet do,-
covered the necessity for the parlor, or
why it is that ninety people out of a
hundred devote 20 per cent. of their
space to useless solitude and large sums
of money to an investment that brings
no return, unless the freezing out o.
guests in winter and sweating them out
in summer just before dinner can be
called return. The real cause OF the
parlor, when the matter is thoroughly
sift.t., viii be found to exist in laziness.
It is because people will not keep their
sitting-rooms tidied up and neat that
parlors continue to exist. The very
room that should be thrown open to the
breezes in summer and Lit by cheerful
fires in winter-the room that should
reso1nd with the laughter of children,
and the evening chorus Of voices in sweet
accord-the room where flowers should
shed their perfume and the family circle
be completed, is made almost an IN
known country. And the family roosts
around in some ill-furnished and ill-kept
room to support the parlor, and wonder
that the SONS hunt up merrier places
and more comfort. Of course, If man
can afford sitting-room and parlor
also, he has as much right to do it as he
has to run up an eight-foot-square
cupola and put 5000 worth of win
dows in it, or to put looking glass
in a horses stall. But if he can afford
but one, let him cut the pa1lor's throat
and throw the hide to the children to
romp on. The only chill we everyhad was
in a parlor, and we never enter one Of the
gloomy caverns where, at times, you
can't tell the chandelier from the time O.
day without feeling an echoing snudder
start up from the past.-Maco,a (Ga.)
TeleoraDh.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-26

WHY are o true lovers visits Ike q
successful newspaper? Because they
commence weekly, then become semi
weekly, then tri-weekly, and then daily
with Sunday supplement. Philadelphia
t2af1aClnu Hem
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-26

Tout toufne,
The cat cast an anxious look at her
master, leaped down in sheer terror and
hid under the bed, from whence no
threat and no caress could bring her out
for the day.-Ladies' Treasury
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-19
MRS. TEuPLEToNS 1s1NITK.

Miss Lucle Laurent, who recently was re-
leased from tue City LuuaIc Asylum on BlacAveIs
Island, stated that il currently reported ia the
asylum that a wealthy lady restrained there. q" l
vas IN the violent ward with her for two weeks
Miss Laurent SAID. and she committed no act
that unlady ike. heard tnat she was brought to
the asylum dressed silks and diamonds These orna-
meuts .akcu from her and she forced To
the asylum clothing SAe very dguihed, and re-
fused to talk with the other inmates. was told that
kept there by her relatives, who used her money
and did not visit her. 1t the talk OF the asy
Inn that sne was al neirc.s.'
reporter OF THE TRIBUNE investigated the case yes
terday. The referred 10 Is Mrs stella " Tenn
peon. At the time OF her removal 10 the asylum she
was guest in the Everett House in Union square she
80 ~ -,r,. 7tor ,ol ~, 80. a,ros
came SO violent taj lt proprietor HHu 10 CdAc sU uc
csive step restrain her lie was unable to mud out
properly committed to the City Asy lum
Tor the Insane. she was exceedingly violent
she had some diamonds aud other valuable Je"elTy
when taken 10 tue asylum CHdIlues Commissioner
Porter learned that Sue also had sOme other property
because tue relatives oI MIS- 4eupe'Oh were sue 10
pay for her main teuauce, the commissioners wished
Powers Chicago Iaw trm held $500 which Mrs
IemplcjDn had I1tru5tcd 70 Jlen Tor Investment enc
r.ng- with clusters OF diamonds. $40; sold
band fin .errug, So lt5 b'ooch, - = Two
cash a pocketoook and gioye-buuOner-Iu all apnroN-
a-eg valued at 800. Mr. Porter sought the opinion OF
taaeu Ia regard TO tie woman aud AyF properly. III
Whitney replied that t4c Ouy proper course was 10 "p
uly t0 the courts for commission IN lunay To inquire
iu-o tuc condition OF Nr- Iempcton IL she were de-
clartd Insane Dg -hc4lAs Jl4Jt k- lal 7Ao1l4 Jt
appointed I'd take cIulgr OF her properly. X -e
l.d sufficient money To pay her board Diu
Vernon Hotel Baltimore, could discharge tlaL drDl
anu secure her property there Ins 0lu amounted To
SO SO. and secretary Buton or th' Department OF
urcs and Corr. ctlO. uu- the check. Tor th- thret
trunks as Wc %, all % te other PERSONA. properly
representative Uf The Oh c-p law irm mas been 10 THIS
CITY ana Xprcsscd their readiness and even anxiety 10
surrender t-c money Lett ~ uc.r cAatc' 9AeIiA
Jury declared Mrs Icupctou l--aue, ana
Sle was sent to the CLy Asy UNI. lie Com
nil soners of Charities and Correction are anxious 10
nave her removed from their charge ~ soon rs possible
A 5la.llau FOR Mrs Ttmpet0us property las uOJ !el
been alD0infed so relatives or friends nave responded
To h. many inquiries that have been instituted by COM
missioner Por.er. Ouy one acquaintance WAS 1Ound
ana. -- proved 10 be "a woman had employed Mrs
rpI.an AS ,e4msres- several years asO, before sAe
had acquired her present properly.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-19

auarantined except to receive coal and Provisions. lew
n,iral Nicholson expected 10 leave for Iripon Ia ~
davs The health officers aud men was sS
Cornmander Cooper, commanding Tue o.l.o. 80 ter
steamer Sxatara reports TO the Navy ~
dnte OF smonstown south Africa, OCTOBER ~ 1orfv
rival of the Swatara that port on OcoOS -, d ba
four DAYS from singapore AZ soon "a tine shP u,or
co.ed he Intended leaving for Hampton fsoas III
20 arrve there not later than December 10 Ane "0
90 officers a nd men had been eNceient. ~ .,,t,s
In rhe colrt martial Of Cap am AiIre1 ~ a
Ccmmandant Of the Pensacola, Fla, navy ihIu' "" -
charge of desertion OF his post, Lieutenant W ec
Surrson w owen. who have arrived rom Iei ~
yrere v1snesses today for the defence On hoh9aS ny
tam HouAins will 90 the stand In ms own Hel
The Tailapoosa LETT League Island NaVy-l aIu' ro
svlvania this morning FOR Norfolk, Va OruSrs rain
issued from the Navy Department to-day iOt kle 1880
ing snips Portsmouth and jamestown, now az mr.
X L. 10 proceed TO the boston Navy ara ior III
pose OF undergoing repairs preparatory 80, ,r1er
cruse In the west Indies These Vessels W. Here
orders TO proceed to Norfolk. but the oruelS w.
changed as above. ,, .-o,, the Ten
nessee December !, and Chaplain Il iii htn, on
newly appointed) has been ordered to releNe MN
that DAY. 49,, .1o Navy Dcnart-
Orders were issued yesterday rom tnS 10 York
maui IN Mace me Jupata on the dry dock al NC" i
for neeGed repairs -, ,t ranestown have
heen ordered t. proceed from newport 70 re Tin
,tr- to cruising i'm the West ln0cs during nc a
Ter The sara Oga, also OF the IaIn',.l- ,'r+
from Key West, Fla. yesterday IOf Ne"poi~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-19
MUSICAL NOTFS.

The opera on Monday evening is LA
Traviata for the second time OF the with Mme.
Patti Of course, as Fi0teq, one Of her bes parts.
Tie CARR brothers, who lately returned from
asouheru trip left town yesterday for concert tour
through the principal cities OF this state
Mr.. John Whites second organ recital oc-
ours at Chi kerlng Han at o'clock on Monday after
noon Mr. White Will play BacAs ugue in minor, an
Andonh rsiigoso ana Pata' NoSer OF Liszt the vara
tiOus OF tue same master on TWO themes from Bach
roul one OF the cantatss and from the CrUctnTS OF
the minor mHssJ, A. O.. Ritters sonata IN MINOR
no 81 ana Merke's sonata No. 4, IN +.
On the same evening at Steinway Hall Miss
Emily Hirscbfeld pianist, will give her first coDcer,
assisted by 5lr s. b. Mills, and Miss Carrie Mcclellan
tsopranol. Miss HIrschfed Is TO play Beethoven
sonata Op. 3d. the Schubert fantasia Op ~ and In
prOmptu, study and polonaise Of chopin, and a
gsyotte by Dupont, MenOeiSsOhn caprice, the Liszt
and Nagner-LsZt lie k0ssignOl" and "rplnnei!lcd )
anu VIII Mr. Mills duo FOR Two pianos by oalntSaens'
Oh theue by Beethoven