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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-22
The Bat Caves of Texas.

A correspondent describing the lime
stone caves or caverns, of Texas, says Of
them: These bat caves have long been
known to bear and turkey hunters.
They abound in several counties of that
State. They are not very comfortable
places to go into, as one is continually
haunted by the fear of rattlesnakes,
she-bears with cubs, and the danger OF
unknown abysses. Beside the great
hordes of bats fitting around your light,
hitting YOU in the face and becoming en-
tangled in your hair, is an uncomfortable
feature, producing & sort of "creeping
feeling in fellow. Then there is tie
ever-present danger of your light be-
coming extinguished, leaving you in
darkness blacl1er than pitch from which
you might never emerge. However ar
dent an explorer he may be who ventures
into one of these things, and however
interested with what he sees, he is con-
tinually wishing that he were we'll out
OF it. They are regular witch holes. If
there be witches in the world, there you
will find them, should think. 1 ex-
plorcd one in Bandera or Medina, sever
al hundred yards, as I judged, until T
came TO fine creek rushing and roaring
through it. Beyond the creek I could
Sec another opening. leading, no dou'5,
to still deeper and darker depths, hut
had got enough Of it, and refused to vent
ure further. In this one encountered
the bat guano Immediately on entering.
and it continued great distan c. :
could not judge how thick the depos.t
was, but it was certainly many feet.
There could not have been less than sew
eral thousand tons of it, and it was &C
cumulatlng with great rapidity.
The substance cast down by these bats
is exceedingly rich in nitrate Of potash.
For the manufacture of that salt no other
substance in the world can compare
with it. I saw any quantity of it in the
Bandera OF Medina cave, which, by the
way, by some natural chemical process.
had been converted where it lay into
pure saltpeter, apparently. It would
undoubtedly make a very strong fertil.
izer, beside furnishing gunpowder, etc. j,
but whether the raw stuff is worth $50 a
ton or not I cannot say. But if it is
worth anything like that figure I should
say Texas bat cave is better than gold
mine. On the whole, it looks like new
industry was about to be added to us in
Texas, namely, that of bat ranching.
The bat ranch man would be at no ex-
pense for feeding or herding his cattle.
He would be at no expense whatever ex-
cept for gathering his guano and ship
ping it to market. He should gather
his guano only in the night wher the
cattle are away feeding. Should he dis
turb them too often in the day time they
might shift their quarters, thus cutting
off his daily supply of guano.
The Confederates worked some of
these caves for saltpeter during the war.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-22
AnecdOte Of AgassiZ,

The father of the famous naturalist
was quite impatient at his sons devotion
to frogs, snakes and fishes, for he wanted
Louis to be merchant. But the boy
would spend bis vacations travelling on
foot through Europe, and carefully ex-
aiming every species Of natural history
that he could find. Once he reached Lon
don when there was to be meeting of the
Royal Society, and, having letter of
Introduction to one of the members, was
permitted to be present. The gentle
man said, "I have a young
friend here from Switzerland who
thinks he knows something about
fishes how much, have fancy to try.
There is, under this cloth. a perfect
skeleton of fish which existed long
before man." After describing it still
further, he said to Agassiz, "Can you
sketch for me on the blackboard your
idea of this fish % The boy took the
chalk and drew an outline of the fish,
correct in every bone. The grave old
doctors burst into loud applause, and
Agassiz said it was theproudest moment
of his life.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-22
Wimmin'S Rights.

send you the following speech, de-
livered at recent women's rights con-
vention by one of the honorable women
thereof. As it has the true ring of
womanly manliness, request it to be
circulated for the benefit of our down.
trodden sex. Yours truly,
ANPRINTHY JERUsHA.
Miss President, Fellow Wimmin and
male trash generally-I am here to-day
for the purpose of discussing wimmin' 8
rights, recussin' her wrongs and cussin'
the men.
[ believe the sexes were created per-
fectly equal, with the woman little
more equal than man.
1 also believe that the world to-day
would have been happier If man had
never existed.
AS success man is failure, and I
thank my stars that my mother was a
woman. (Applause.)
1 not only maintain these principles.
but maintain shiftiess husband be-
side.
They say that man was created first.
ments always failures?
IL was OeUtluS man would bet
$2.37 they are.
The only decent thing about him was
a rib, and that went to make something
better. (Applause.)
And then they throw into our faces
about taking an apple. I'll bet SIS
Adam boosted her up the tree and only
gave her the core.
And what did he do when he was
found ont? True to his masculine in
stincts, he sneaked behind Ewes Gre
cian-bend, and said: "'Twasn't me
twas her." and woman has had to
father everything mean and mother it.
too.
What we want is a ballot, and ballot
We are bound to have, if he have to let
down our back hair and swim in sea of
sangnina-y gore! nsation. )-Arkan-
s0S Gd=ette.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-22
The Red River Country.

Nowhere else in the United States,
unless it be in the distant end little
known valleys of Eastern Oregon and
Washington Territory, are such large
crops of wheat raised with such small
expense and such certainty of success
year after year. The grain is sown late
IN the spring, as soon as the hot suns OF
the northern latitude have dried the
soaked lands, and grows with marvellous
rapidity. By August it is fully mature
and ready for reaping. All the farm
work is done by machinery. The plow-
man rides upon sulky pillow the grain
is sown with drill or q broad caster ::
the reaping machines Lind the sheaves
as they move over the ground,
and the threshers do their work in the
fields driven by portable steam engines
that burn the straw Tor fuel. The grain
is hauled at once to the elevators at the
nearest railway station, and then the
whole farm equipment of apparatus Is
left standing in the fields until needed
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-22
The New Prisoner of Chillon.

The Castle of Chillon has another
mysterious prisoner. Bonivard's sue
cessor IS lady GO years old, said to be
a Russian" and her offense is that she
tried to shoot simple German from
Magdeburg as he sat on the terrace in
front of his hotel at Glion. She seems
to have done so under misapprehen-
sion. She thought he was Nihilist, and
whether she tried to kill him because
she believed him to be traitor to the
cause or, as other conjectures have it.
because she wanted to punish him for
his sentiments to the Gear can make no
difference in the regard worshipers OF
force must have for her,
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-22
THE FLATTENED CANNON BALL.
An Incident Of the Battle at Cold
Hnrbor. in the Virginia Cam

AN lnCl0cnC Oh the BaClte M COlO
Harbor, in the Virginia Cam
paign.
by Capt. Jackman, of the New Hampshire SIXTH
On the 9Th we were ordered from the
front line, and went to the rear, or sec
ond line of works, where we had little
rest. We were in an open field, skirted
by woods on the north and west. As
we lay here in the shade on the after
noon of the It'll the enemy came round
to the right of our front line in strong
force with several batteries, and all of
sudden opened on us at furious rate.
The shots came from both the front and
right. The men fell into line without
orders, ready to move to the front at a
word. Here one of the most laughable
incidents OF the war occurred, which
many Of the vets will remember. As
Lieut.. Col. Bixby and myself We're
standing side by side, few feet in rear
OF the regiment, talking about the flu
sillade, he turned suddenly to the right
and moved back his right foot iour
backs being to the enemy Oh our right.
just at that moment a underground
SHOT stuck the ground where his foot
was moment before, throwing the dirt
all over us. 1t passed on and struck the
ground again a few rods further on, and
ricochetted again. At the same time
one of the colored cooks of our brigade
was running in the same direction the
shot was going, and in bee line with
it, with two camp-kettles in his
hands. He was running for dear
life, as the shot were coming
from all directions. After the ball had
struck the ground the third time and
bounded into the air it struck the darby
plumb in the back of the head, knock
ing him over and sending the camp-ket-
ties flying several feet ahead Of him.
The boys shouted, "There's a dead
Niger !' for it was all in sight of our
brigade. But to the surprise of all
lookers-on he jumped up as quickly as
be went down and raj like deer across
the field toward house where Gen.
Potter had his headquarters. Such q
shout as went up from the boys was
never heard before on the line. FL. Pool
remarked: "Who says q darky's head
cannot stop solid shot? ?" Iwould not
have dared tell this story for fear some
of my readers would say 1 was " fibbing'
il tins incident had not been seen by
several hundred men. It was the most
singular accident 1 ever witnessed in
the army. The only reason why the
shot did not kill the darby outright
wa, the fact that he was running so
fast in the same direction and the shot
had lost the greater part of its force
by striking the ground three or four
times, SO when it hit him in the head he
vas going almost as fast as the shot was.
But have no doubt he had the head
ache the rest of the day, and no doubt
it would have killed white man on the
spot. When I was in Libby prison
heard soldier Of the New Hampshire
regiment tell of the same incident, but
the boys shook their heads and said
they could not take in such big dose
rs that, but when several others came
forward and said they saw it all, they
had to give in and accept it as gospel
truth.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-22
Painting Houses.

Mr.. e. E. Rexford presents some i'm
portant facts on {" Painting Houses in
the -4merican Agric~lturist, from which
we select the following:
For country houses / would advise for
open, exposed places, pale gray or
drab. There are complaints made fre-
quently that Grab looks cold. It cannot
look colder than white does, and there
is no reason why it should look cold at
all. If proper care is taken to have the
trimmings Of the house of some warm,
cheerful color. know q drab house
with deep, warm-toned brown cornice
and blinds, with plenty of vines Chamber
ing up it to break the monotony Of the
surface between the windows, and il is
one of the warmest looking houses 7
know OF. In the summer it is refresh
ing to look at it. It does not pain the
eyes with its glare. It does not assert
itself the moment you reach the top Of
the hill and come within sight OF it. A
white house would draw your attention
at once ; and, no matter how you might
try to look at something else. the white
blotch on the landscape would leave It's
impression in your eyes, and you could
not help seeing it. This grey house
seems part of the landscape. Its color
blends well with tie green about it.
There are no-large trees around it. but
there are vines. and the general effect in
summer is cool and subdued, and in
winter it gives sense of warmth and
comfort. Why it gives sensation of
warmth at one season and of GOODNESS at
another, is explained by the fact that
summer is season Of high, bright
colors, and the drab is in lower tone Of
color than those prevailing in the land
scape. Winter is season of but little
color, and then drab, in contrast with
the snow-covered earth, becomes cheer
full, and the deep-toned trimmings,
which should be seen on every house
painted in drabs or greys, give sense
of warmth which they would not have in
summer when. all about it is in high,
decided tones.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-22
Fanny FERNS Order for Dinner.

nave recalled several times, and for
reasons, morn I once spent with
"Fanny Fern, " who was always goodan
kind to young people, especially if they
aspired to scribbling for the printer.
She was busy and had given orders that
there were to be no Interruptions for any
reason. Suddenly there broke upon our
stillcess-she was writing and I reading
"a loud knock on the door. "What is
it?' SAID Mrs. Parton, trifie inpatient
Iy. 1t was the COOK, new one. "Plase,
ma'anl, nothing has come for dinner.
What will I do, ma'am?" "Do? Why,
cook the cat but leave me alone" and
she gently shut the door and turned the
key. I did not stay to dinner. A
kinder-hearted woman than sFanny
Fern never lived but, like all women
w.o seek seclusion aud quiet. at times
she had to fight for it.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-22
They Are Children.

Don't expect too much of them; it
has taken you forty years, it may be, to
make you what you are, with all your
lessons of experience, and I will dare
say you are faulty being at best. Above
all, don't expect judgment in child or
patience under trial. Sympathize il
their mistakes and troubles don't ridi-
cule them. Remember not to measure
a child's trial by your standard. GAS
one whom his mother comforteth, 80 says
the inspired writer, and beautifully does
he convey to us the deep faithful love
that ought to be foand in every woman's
heart, the unfailing sympathy with all
her children's griefs. Let the memories
of their childhood be as bright as you
can make them. Grant them every in
nocent pleasure in your power. We have
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-22
Mental Visions.

Dickens used to say that he some
times heard the characters of his novels
speak to him. A French novelist de-
clared that, while writing the description
of the poisoning Of one of his characters,
he had the taste of arsenic as distinctly
in his mouth as if he himself had been
power of making g mental representation
seem real /; but it is q dangerous power
to use. The mental vision may haunt
the man until he becomes insane.
DR.. Wigan tells Of a skillful painter
whom he knew who assured him that he
had once painted 800 portraits in one
year. The secret of his rapidity and
success was that he required but one
sitting and painted with wonderful
facility.
"When a sitter came" he said, CT
looked at him attentively for half an hour,
sketching him from time to time on the
my canvas and took another sitter.
"When I wished to resume my FIRST
portrait, I took the man and sat him in
the chair, where I saw him as distinctly
as if he had been before me In his own
proper person. may almost say more
wildly.
81 looked from time to time at the
imaginary figure, then worked with my
pencil, then referred to the countenance,
and SO on, just as I should have done
had the sitter been there. When I looked
at the chair, I saw the man.
60 Gradually I began to lose the dis
tnction between the imaginary figure
and the real person, and sometimes dis
puted with sitters that they had been
with me the day before.
Sat last was sure Of it, and then
and then-all is confusion. I suppose
they took the alarm. I recoIlect moth
ing more. lost my senses-was thirty
years in an insane asylum. The whole Pc
riod, except the last six months of my
confinement, is dead blank In my
momnry"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-22
A Georgia Catfish.

In the early days of Rome, about for
ty years ago, a poor widow, Mrs.
Parks, occupied rude habitation about
sixteen feet square, constructed of rough
poles, on the site where DIR. Gregory's
residence now stands. This poor woman
had two children-the elder stout, ro-
bust girl about Is years Of age, Martha
by name. The other was a boy of 7.
One day Martha, who took in washing
to help support the family, went to the
spring near the house, on the banks of
the Etowah river, to do some washing;
her brother was with her. On arriving
at the spring, which is only few feet
from the river, she noticed an enormous
catfish lying in the cool branch Of the
spring in water nearly deep enough to
float the fish. A batteau was fastened
to tree near by, and stepping to the
boat she seized paddle, and, quick as
thought, dealt the monster fish blow
on the head which stunned it, and the
little boy, Scruggs Parks, jumped into
the stream and seized the fish, but in his
excitement and attempts to secure the
prize he thrust both hands into the gills
of the fish. The gills closed on them
with vise-like grip, and the fish in
foundering about with the boy at length
struck water deep enough to support
him, and, with head to the river, with a
mighty effort shot into the stream with
the speed of an arrow, the boy on his
back. A moment of terrible anguish
and suspense to the poor sister, who was
a helpless observer of all that was pass
ing, and the catfish landed high and dry
on an island some sixty or seventy feet
from the shore, with the boy in faint.
ing, frightened and half-drowned condi-
ton. The cries of the sister soon brought
men on the scene, who took the boat and
in few minutes landed fish and boy on
the shore of the river. The fish weighed
sixty-fve pounds.
The editor of the Bulletin says We
vouch for the truthfulness of this story,
getting the facts, as we do, from an old
citizen, who was an eye witness to the
rescue of the boy from the clamp of the
gills. There are q few other citizens
still living in Rome who will remember
the incident, which created some excite
ment at the time of its occurrence.
Rome (Ga.) Bulletin.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-22

THERE is pathetic and poetical
story told about James Thomson, the
author of "The City Of Dreadful Nj ht."
In his youth he was in the British army,
and was betrothed to beautiful girl,
from whom the demands of military life
temporarily separated him. One day he
received news Of her slight illness, and
on the next came without further warr-
ing the news of her sudden death. The
young poet fell senseless to the ground,
and for many weeks lay dangerously i'll.
He arose reckless and defiant man
careless of life and fortune. George
Eliot once wrote to him note of hearty
admiration for his best-known poem.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-22
Dealing with a Liar.

The only way to deal with liar is to
beat him at his own game. That is, of
course, unless he is the editor of pious
newspaper. What started this item was
reading about an American who had
been to Europe, and who was telling a
friend, who knew he was liar, about his
trip across the atlantic, and how on the
25th of the month "they encountered
swarm of locusts, and the locusts car.
ried away every stitch of canvas off the
ship The listener looked thoughtful a
moment, and then said, hesitatingly,
eyes, guess We met the same swarm
of locusts the next day, the Goth.
Every locust had on a pair of canvas
pants" The first liar went around a
corner and kicked himself. -PecE's Sun.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-22

u,uon lelS our temper rise 10 see now
carelessly their little plans were thwarted
by older persons, when a little trouble
on their part would give the child
pleasure, the memory Of which would
last lifetime. Lastly, don't think
child hopeless because it betrays
some very bad habits. We have
known children that seemed to have
been born thieves and liars, SO early did
they display these undesirable traits,
yet they have lived to see those same
children become noble men and women
and ornaments to society. We must
confess they had wise, affectionate par
cnts. And, whatever else you may be
compelled to deny your child by your
circumstances in life, give it what it
most values, plenty of love.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-22

A Quebec farmer, while returning
from his moving lot, with his scythe
over his shoulder, was struck by light
ming and instantly killed. This shows
what little use the universe has for a
man who mows with scythe in 1885.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-22

A FRENCH statistician has calculated
thatlf ali telegraph wires were tackled end
ON end they would reach forty-six times
round the world. Belgium has greater
telegraph mileage in proportion to its
superficial area than any other country
in Europe. Switzerland comes second,
and Great Britain third. Russia has the
least.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-22

REFLECTION by pessimistic philoso-
pier: GA good book or good play does
very little good bad one does an enor.
NOUS amount of HARM"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-11-23
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

A singular case is on trial. II involves
the question whether a perecn who has
rented piano in his possession is compelled
TO pay taxes thereon.
Dearborn, who is under arrest for the
abduction of Carrie Vance, has also been
booked on charge of burglary preferred
by r. G.. Johnson, whose room, it is
alleged. he entered and robbed.
Theodore Warren, who recently feloni-
ously entered a number of school. houses
and stole clocks, which he sold to Chinese
fence" for the purpose of raising money
TO satisfy desire for opium, has been held
by Judge Rosenbaum for trial in the Supe-
rior Court upon four charges of burglary.
Robert Hurlett was arrested by officers
Wichman and Whan at an early hour Tues
day morning upon charge of robbery. L
is alleged that last Saturday night he and
another individual, not yet arrested, as.
saulted Frederick Gerke in saloon on
Market street and robbed him of gold
watch and a silver watch.
Tuesday J. B. Titus, J. H. Rslston, B.
S. Taylor and r. M. Woolley were ar.
rested on charge of misdemeanor. 1t is
alleged that they have been carrying on the
business Of druggists without having OBJ.
tanned certificate from the Board Of
Pharmacists, appointed by a State law.
The object of the arrest is to test the con-
stitutionality of the law.
Early Tuesday afternoon little daughter
of J. f. Sims, of 2404 Mission street, was
playing near her fathers residence, when
she was knocked down and run over by one
of the Mission-street bobtail cars, driven
by d. Collins. She was picked PIP in a
horribly mangled condition, and placed
under the care of physician, but without
avail, death occurring within an hour.
Collins was afterward ARRESTED and locked
up on chsrge OF manslaughter. Ga be.
ing taken before Judge Rosenbaum he was
admitted to bail in the sum of 5000.
Joseph Eastman, proprietor of the Gass.
man House, No. 42S Broadway, Tuesday
afternoon, about o'clock, heard pistol
shot, and, after long search through the
house and yard without ascertaining the
cause, put up a ladder to the window OF
the room occupied by Felix Everarts, and
saw the latter seated in chair dead, pieces
of his skull being scattered around on the
floor and brains spattered all over the walls
of the room. A piece of the skull wa:
found in the back yard. At the feet of de-
ceased was found q discharged derringel
pistol Deceased had been unemployed fol
some time and was respondent. He was {
native of Belgium, about 45 years of age
and by trade tailor. He leaves widow
In New York
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-11-23
PROBATE NOTICE.

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT, STATE OF CALI.
L fornia, county Of Sacramento.-In the matter Of
the Estate OF IL. B. WEIGH, deceased.-No-
Of NOVEMBER, 1882, at 10 o'clock A. N. OF said
day, at the Courtroom of said Court, at the Court
house, in the city of Sacramento county of Saera-
mento and State Of California, have been ap-
pointed the time and place for proving the will Of
said II. B WEIGH, deceased, and for hear
ing the application of C. WATERHoUSE and s. H.
DAVIS, for the issuance to them of letters tesla
mentary thereon.
Witness my hand and the seal OF sid Court
this 18th day of NOVEMBER, 1882
IsEAL.I TH0S. II. BERKEY, Clerk
By CHAs NJ. CoGLaS, Deputy Clerk
D. Z. ALEXANIER Attorney for p tltioners nl6 lot