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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-08-24
Turf.

Sarstoge, 23.-First race, three quar-
ter mile, "Bondon" fast. "PTi5e:,
second, Patti" third; time, I.I5M.
Second race, mile and 500 ysrds.
"Lida StsnhOpe" first. ''Kinniss >
second, "BushwhAcker" third; Tine.
? 131S.
London, 25.-The Ebar hsndicsn
stakes at York were won By "Victor
EmsHuel. ''Balial" second, 'TsmsiIn
third.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-08-24

BiINING PATENTS. Full Eeu
II blanks Tor application for Hinins
Patents-approVed forzN-k0 Be b.
q TIA E1RAED 0AeA
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-12
ARTEMUS WARD.

Ward started with an announcement
that he would lecture on "The Babes in
the Wood He said he preferred this
title to that of "My Seven Grandmoth-
ers." Why, nobody knows, for there
was, of course, to be as little in the
lecture about babes, In or out of the
wood, as about seven OF any number of
grandmothers. "The Babes in the
Wood was never written down: few
sentences only have survived of per-
Torrance which was destined to revolu-
tionize the comic featuring Of the age.
The "Babes'' seem only to have been
alluded to twice-frst at the beginning,
when the lecturer gravely announced
"The Babes" as his subject, and then,
after rambling string of irrelevant wit
ticisms, which lasted from an hour to an
hour and half, he concluded with, 81
now come to my subject THE Babes in
the Wood" Then, taking out his
watch, his countenance would suddenly
change-surprise, followed by great per-
plexity. At last, recovering his former
composure, and facing the difficulty as
best he could, he continued: "But I
find have exceeded my time, and will
therefore merely remark that, so far as I
know, they were very good babes; they
were as good as ordinary babes" Then,
almost breaking down, and much more
nervously: "I really have no time to go
into their history; you will find it all in
the story books" Then, getting quite
dreamy: "They died in the woods,
listening to the woodpecker tapping the
hollow beech tree" With some sur
prised emotion: cit was a sad fate for
them, and L pity them; so I hope do
you. Goodnight p The success of this
lecture was instantaneous and decisive.
The reporters complained that they
could not write for laughing, and split
their pencils desperately in attempts to
take down the jokes. Every hall and
theater was crowded to hear about the
"Babes," and the "Lyceum" lecturer
of the period, "what crammed hisself
full of high-soundin' phrases, and got
trusted for SCOT of black Clothes" had
nothing to do but to go home and destroy
himself -Good Words.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-12
A CHIROGRIPHICA CONFLICT.

Matthew Hale Snaith was writing let
tiers to the Boston Journal over the sig
nature Of &c Burleigh." Smith wrote
detestable hand, and Charles Fl. Rog-
ers, who was then making the Journal
jump with his activity, enterprise and
liberality, was very nearly his match in
this particular. One day compositor
came down to Mr.. Rogers with some of
Burleigh's ''copy," saying that if he had
got to set that sort of stuff they'd have
to pay him by the hour, because he
couldn't make his salt setting by the
thousand. Rogers Immediately wrote
Burleigh note, telling him that if he
couldn't write so that his letters could
be read, he had better either quit writ
ing or get somebody to do his writing
for him. In day OF two there arrived
an envelope with Rogers signature cut
out from the letter and pasted upon it,
and 6 Care Boston Journal" written be-
meath. Upon being opened it read as
follows .sDear Sir have received a
letter which, from the printed heading,
I assume to be from the Journal Office.
If you will get somebody that can write
a legible hand to inform me whom it is
from, and what it is all about, I shall es-
TEEN it favor. Yours truly, Matthew
Hale Smith" The next time Mr.. Smith
came to Boston he was handsomely en-
tertained, and Charley Rogers paid the
bills.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-12
WHIT BROKE Il PRINTER.

The publisher of a weekly newspaper
in Michigan before the war was under
the saddle and h.tched to a wagon to
boot. He carried a load of doubt,
debt and anxiety which would have
crushed Secretary of the Treasury In
one brief week. A dollar was cart
wheel in his eyes, and two cart-wheels
in the eyes of his employees. 1t is Wv
idly remembered by the writer how a
certain publisher in an interior town
felt as happy as King when he could
send for two bundles of paper at once,
and it is more wildly remembered that
he never saw the week when he could
buy one bundle of paper and pay off the
hands, too, in cash.
One day printer died. Perhaps he
gradually starved to death, or may be
the anxiety as to how he could buy both
wood and -four the same Saturday fin
ished him off. At any rate a new
printer came up from Grand Rapids to
fill the gap, and his wages were to be
So per week. On the first Saturday he
got an order ON hardware store for $40
and 81 in cash. On the next he got a
boot and shoe order for So and a So
order on grocery. On the third he
had to take Sc order on ivery-stable
and let the balance go over. His fourth
Saturday had arrived, and he had 81
due him. An order for that amount on
a saw-mll man was quietly laid on his
case and the books balanced, but he
protested
"Why, I can't use this order"
"Why not? ?"
81 don't want any lumber"
"You don't?"
"No, SIR
The publisher looked blank, scratched
his head, and after a minute hurried
over to the desk with the remark
81 see-all right. I'll tear this up
and give you one on cooper for $40
and another on tie undertaken for So
You had better arrange to get married
and settle down here"
The printer went out of that town
that evening by very muddy highway,
having disposed of his orders for 50 in
cash and sachel to hold his spare
hirt.-Detroit Free Press.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-12
THE Woods CRAZE,


Curious Effect of Losing Both the Mind and
Body iN the Forest.
The guides through the great wilder
ness Of the Southern Alleghenies have
much to say of what they call the
''wood craze" The most expert hunter,
they declare, is liable to become sud
denly bewildered in the interminable
forests, and once having lost his reckon
ing is seized with kind OF frenzy.
Henry Forde records the same fact in
its relation to travellers through the
mountains of West Virginia. "The
most experienced woodsmen, " he writes,
''are subject to these injuries; the argu-
ments Of companions; the position of
the sun observations of known land
marks, fail to convince them of their
whereabouts. They simply are lost in
mind as well as IL body" Old woods
men usually recover in a short time. but
men unused to the vast wilderness have
been known IN their madness to fly atsight
OF parties sent torescue them, and to bury
themselves IN the tbickets, where they
starve to death. Catlin was told by the
Indians that man lost on the prairie
invariably travels in circle, moving to
the left. An old hunter who lived
nearly q century ago in Western Vir-
glnia, and left an autobiography behind
him, full of adventure and keen obser-
vatlOns, tells us Of a madness which
seizes the hunter after long pursuit of
his prey, and which he calls the deer
fever. 81 have gone for two days and
nights through the deep snow, stripped
to my hunting shirt and absolutely with
out food" he says, "and neither felt
cold nor hunger. I was burning in
wardly, and, as everybody knows, a man
never cares to eat when fever is upon
him, and is stronger tAen than at any
other time"
These random facts are worth noting,
as they really index important truths in
lSs
The rarcheros of New Mexico, and the
cowboys Of Arizona have some curious
traditions and customs, which are found
ed upon natural laws that are but little
understood. One of these is their be-
lief thai isolated cattle can and do find
their way to their birthplace across the
plains II released after journey of hun
dreds OF miles upon a railroad train.
This Is, after all, no more singular than
the coming back of fish to spawn in their
native waters, a phenomenon which oc-
ours every year. They return even as
far as from the Gulf of Mexico, to some
obscure little stream in Kentucky
Youths Companion.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-12
"REASON ENOUGH"
Back, I say ="

"Back, I say
The silvered foam of the sea was
splashing in rhythmic cadence on the
white sand of the beach, while here and
there feck of wavering light from the
signal buoy on Sardine shoals-that
dreaded spot beneath whose treacherous
waves SO many goodly ships freighted
with precious burdens from far Cathay
and Muskegon had disappeared forever
brought into bold relief against the
western sky Girode McClosky's off foot
as she stood by Bertrarn Perkins side
that soft June evening.
"You do not love me- said the girl,
speaking slowly, cor you could not
speak so cruelty. On this beautiful
night, when the hills are suffused with
amber haze, through which the stars
glow and throb in silent splendor, we
should think Of naught but love-pure,
passionless love, that will bind our
hearts together in a chain whose every
link shall be kiss, whose every fold a
sweet caress."
For an instant the man did not reply.
Then the girl stretched forth to him her
bare white arms that glistened like
marble in the glowing dusk, but he
needed them not.
CIVIL you not speak to me, sweet
hearth" she said, an infinite pathos in
the words.
No answer came. Again the out.
stretched arms pleaded mutely and with
pitiful eloquence for the JOY that was
never to be. Looking at her with 6
naughty, almost Vice President Davis
expression on his face, Bertlam 'agair
said:
''Back, I say!"
With despairing CLEAN in her hand
some eyes Girofe turned away and be
gan to sob as if her corset would break
"God help me-" Ae said, in despairine
accents, g I cannot back"
"Why not ?" asked Bertram.
Because" was the reply in tear
stained tones, "my polonaise is too eter-
nally tight. ''-Chicago Tribune.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-12
YALE COLLEGELOGEC.

"The child is father to the man. %
Hence the child would be paternal
grandfather to the mans child. But
the later child, being also father to the
man, would be, therefore, his own pater-
nal grandfather. Hence this latter
child would have two paternal
grandfathers, both children, of whom he
himself was one. Now, this rule being
universal, the other child would be like
wise his own grandfather, and hence
great-great- grandfather to the before
mentioned child. But these two children
were each father to the man, state of
affairs which can be accounted for ONLY
on the ground that one of them was q
step-father. That is, they both mar
ried the same wife. 1t is presumable
that the one who was great great grand
father OF the other married her first. for
if not, the other would have married one
of his direct female ancestors before she
was married. This borders on the i'm
probable. 1t is, then, only left to as
sumo that the child married his great
great-grandmother. This brings us to a
conclusion far more startling than that
of Mr.. Wordsworth, viz: The child is
step great-great-g grandfather to himself.
So was 1t when the world began? If so,
this is a convincing argument on the
side of evolution. Yale Record.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-12
NO POCKETS At VEST POINT.

There are no pockets in the trousers
OF the West Point cadets, nor in their
coats either. The cadets wear no vests,
and are trained to do without pockets.
They are left free to choose between
putting their handkerchiefsi in their caps
or breasts. The authorities say they
must not use tobacco. They are not
allowed to carry money, and the ores
who govern them do not see what need
they have for pockets. When the
''plebs" first arrive, they swagger
around, with their hands in their peck
cts, and, in fact, do not seem to know
where else to put them. One Of the
secrets of making soldiers at the mill
tary academy is by depriving the
students of pockets and compelling them
to allow their hands and arms to seek
the center of gravity.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-12
--------------------
EOHOE1AN OALHEORAL 5.

The cathedral of Speyer is the great
est monument Of the Romanesque style
of architecture in Germany, larger than
the cathedrals of Ulm or Strasbourg,
and therefore still larger than the build
ings of MaYence or st. Stephen of Wen
ma, and is only surpassed by the Dom Of
Cologne. OF the churches outside Of
Germany, the largest throughout the
world are st. Peters at Rome, the Dom
of Milan, St. Paul's at Rome, st. So
phia's at Constantinople, the Duomes at
Florence, and st. Paul's in London. All
OF these churches thus enumerated here
according to their size, are larger than
the Cologne Cathedral In its completion.
st. Peters at Rome occupies an area
three times the size of that of the Dom
of Cologne of similar size with the
Spever cathedral is that OF Antwerp,
and only next to that is the celebrated
Notre Dame of Paris. The great cathe-
dral of the Speyer is celebrated as the
place of assembly of the famous con lave
of Cardinals and dignitaries of the Cath
Ole church to take into consideration
the heresies Of the reformation, and to
which the friends of Luther and the
reformation sent paper protesting
against the claims of the church Of
=
Rome in matters of faith and conscience,
and from which was taken the name VI
Protestants as applied to the followers
Of che new religious belief.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-12
PLANT NATURE.

Why does the radicle of plant grow
downward and the plumule grow up
ward? If you wish to experiment on
this matter, we viii tell you very easy
way to make trial. Make a small
earth, a ball Of damp soil, about the size
OF base ball have it sufficiently wet SO
that it will not fall apart. Now take
string and saw the ball into two hemi-
spheres. Now take some radish seeds
any other seeds will do-place with
little pressure your seeds around in o
ci1cle on the surface of the flat portion
oSyour hemisphere, with the foramen Of
each seed pointing toward the center.
Now take the other half of the ball and
press it with the other, making your
sphere again. Take piece of mosquito
netting and tie it around the globe, to
keep it in its shape.
Now reverse the natural order of light,
heat and moisture by hanging up the
ball over the window, and by keeping the
upper side the wetter. Hang it so the
seam, made by cutting the ball in two,
will be vertical. In four or five days
open the ball, and you will see roots
going down and stems up. After they
get out of the ground the roots keep
close to the ground, and the leaves and
stem grow toward the light.-Dakota
Farmer.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-12

DANA KRUM, one of the conductors on
the Erie railway, was approached before
train time by an unknown man, who
spoke to him as if he had known him for
yea CT say. Dana, I have forgotten
my Pass, and want to go to Susque-
hanna. I am afreman on the road, you
know" but the conductor told him he
ought to have pass with him it was
the safest way. Pretty soon Dana came
along to collect tickets. Seeing his man,
he spoke when he reached him "Say,
my friend, have you the time with you %
eyes" said he, as ne pulled out watch,
&c it is twenty minutes past g. "Oh,
it is, is it Now, if you don't show me
your pass or fare I will stop the train.
There is no railway man ever saw that
would say twenty minutes past g. He
would say 1920" He settled.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-12
THE EUNUCH.

The eunuch is great parsonage in the
harem or palace. His power is almost
absolute. There is no limit to his con-
troll. The chief eunuch in palace is
styled Kislar Agaci he is black, and
takes the position of the second man OF
the empire, ranking with the Grand
Vizier. he is Captain of the girls. Ii
they are insubordinate he does not
mince matters, but chastises them with
rods on the bare body. Should the mat
ter, however, be very serious one, they
are disposed of. These black eunuchs
are hideous, ungainly fellows, generally
with short necks and long legs; they are
very naughty and overbearing in their de-
meanor, and, when escorting thex charges
on excursions, slash about with their
courbtach, or whip, indiscriminately,
to clear the way for the pets of the
Padishah. They enjoy princely salaries,
and the large fortunes amassed by them
result mainly from backsheesh screwed
out of the inmates Of the harem. It is
from this class of Orientals that the
mutes are selected. Mutes are still en-
ployed by the Sultan in his palaces as
guards and attendants, and especially
are their negative services availed of at
the Porte, where all official business and
diplomatic interviews are carried on.
The mutes Eve are not talking Of the
"Arabian Nights and their fanciful
stories, but in sober earnest as to what
is happening at the present hour) are
selected from the eunuchs, and when
very young have their tongues cut out,
and every means devised to keep them
In state of ignorance, as they are not
even taught to read and write. The
eunuchs are also turned to further &C
count. When a Grand Vizier is to be de-
posed, or some other person in high Office
to be dismissed, such matters are gen.
orally carried through with expedition.
The officer whose duty it is to undertake
this important mission is termed "Black
Ears" It is for. him only to notify the
Grand Vizier that his power is at an end.
He appears suddenly. always at mid.
night, and without any kind of warming.
He receives for this errand large
amount of backsheesh. In former DAYS
it was his privilege and duty to strangle
then and there the Grand Vizier OF other
high functionary, whoever he might be.
But things are more mercifully managed
now, and the victim is smuggled, On
board the Sultan's steam yacht, The
Izzedin. to some distant point in Arabia
or Asia Minor, and most probably the
ministerial career is terminated by the
simple process Of administering cup Of
"Mocha. "-London Society.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-12
HOW FAST THE BAMBOO GROWS.


There are some fine old bamboos in a
neighboring grove, standing in SYM
metrlcal order, their feathery tops
piercing the SKY. The bamboo not only
gives voice in its growth, but it grows
SO rapidly that you can see it increase in
height as you look at it. One gentle
man of our party assured me that he
has bamboos growing on his place that
are increasing in height three feet in
twenty-four hours. Our host told me
that the grove we were looking at at
tanned its growth in about thirty days,
and they were at leastforty feet in height.
The first few days the growth is not so
rapid as during the last fifteen days.
The bamboo never grows in diameter
after leaving the ground. There are
different species-some as delicate In
their rotundity as lady's riding whip,
while some are several inches In
diameter. At ripe old age the bamboo
flowers and dies. The grove we were
looking at was standing in the place
where had grown, blossomed and died
some of the same family. 1t is said that
as the twig is bent the tree is inclined. ,
As the bamboo shows itself at two feet
above the ground, it remains in girth
during its life. It shows the same
appearance always. The secret OF its
finely fibered exterior is thus accounted
for. The bamboo of to-day will be the
same until it adorns itself with it's death
chaplet. It is the very personification
of vigor. When it is once rooted in the
soil it is there for all time, or until every
vestige of root fiber is eradicated. 1t
extends its roots in all directions and
grows as fast almost laterally under
ground as its shoots do above. When
the shoots make their appearance SO
rapidly do they grow that the ground is
raised and broken above them. In
China, for the punishment of certain
crimes, it is provided that the culprit
shall be bent over growing bamboo
terrible infiction of punishment it
must be because it means nothing more
nor less than implement. And yet so
tender are the young shoots that they
are eaten as vegetable, and considered
delicacy.-.San Francisco Chronicle.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-12
THE NETSPAPEK.

T. K. Hunt. in his " Fourth Estate"
remarks The moral of the history of
the press seems to be that when any
large proportion of people have been
taught to read, and when upon this pos
session Of the tools of knowledge, there
has grown up habit of perusing pub
lie prints, the state is virtually power
less if it attempts to check the press.
James IT.. in old times, and Charles
X. and Louis Philippe more recently,
tried to trample down the newspapers,
and everybody knows how the attempt
resulted. The prevalence or scarcity of
newspapers in country affords sort of
index to its social state. Where jour
nails are numerous, the people have
power, intelligence and wealth where
journals are few, the many are in reality
mere slaves. IN the UnitedStates every
village has its newspaper. In England
we know how influential for good the
papers are, while In France they have,
perhaps, still greater power. Turn to
Russia, where newspapers are compare
lively unknown, and we see the people
sold with the earth they are compelled
to till. Austria, Italy and Spain occupy
/, positions between the extremes, the rule
holding good in all, that in proportion
to the press is the freedom and prosper
ity of the people.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-12

Coz. PERCY YERGER was complaining
confdentially to Hostetter McGinnis of
the frequency with which his mother in
law paid him visits-that she came to
see him four or five times a year. "My
wife's MOTHER responded McGinnis,
has visited me only once in the last five
or SIX years. The last time she came to
see me was when I was first married,
five years ago. LUCKY man! When
is she going to visit you again ?" "How
Can l tell? She has not got through
with her first visit yet-but I can't see
where the luck comes in."-7eras Silt.
ings.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-12
LAIN rrPE FOR THE GERMANS.

An interesting article on German VS..
Latin type, in q recent number of the
DeoHScIe RHndScb0u, sketches the his
tory Of q struggle in Germany, which
must end at last in the triumph of
common sense over patriotic sentiment.
The Gothic type was the creation of
the earliest German printers, who
wished TO make their books as much
like contemporary manuscripts as pos
sible. The Latin type" antigua " in
printers parlance-was, broadly speak
ing, the creation of Italian humanism
which chung to it as representing at
once close approximation to the char
acter of classical antiquity and rebellion
against the monks, from whose manu-
script character the Gothic type was
developed. Already in 1869 Leibnitz
urged upon his German countrymen the
abandonment of the Gothic type for the
more cosmopoliton "antiqua," and in
the following century it seemed as if
literary Germany were about to take his
advice. Toward the end of the eight
zenith century the new or Latin type
became burning question. Goethe
was at one time on the side of change;
Kant, on the other hand, protested en-
ergetically against the Abandonment of
the national character. At tie present
day victory is once more inclining to
Rome against the barbarians. Forty
per cent. of all books printed in Ger
many in 1880 were printed in ''antiqua,"
and the proportion is steadily increas-
ing. Tie Latin type must finally win
in Germany as it has won elsewhere,
Prof. kelle is persuaded; but its friends
will do well to let it win naturally and
gradually, without forcing it on the
country by any attempts at legislation.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-12

"IT is safe to say" says Mr.. Busby,
of the Turf, Field and Farm, 6. that
10000, 600 are invested in the trotting
parks and trotting- horse interests of the
United States. For number of years
the money distributed in purses and
premiums to the successful competitors
in trotting and pacing contests in this
country has averaged nearly 81 ,00O, 00C
a year"