Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-24

pOScu Oh curing the discussion III congress
how many thousand Chinese it would
take to ruin us. The few thousand now
here will, it seems, not do US any harm /;
but if any more were to come, our future
would be horrid to contemplate. The
next time the matter comes up we hope to
have the precise figures. How many
Cinnamon will spoil nation of $4,000, 900
people? We are safe now; but how near
the brink of the pricipice did we come?
In an ancient city like Boston the num-
Der of the architectural relics of the past
IS against the paramount fame of any one
of them. Partly for this reason and partly.
it is true, from civic neglect, the old state
house has been quite overshadowed by
Philadelphia's independence hall, a much
younger building, and historically a good
way IN the rear when one examines the be-
glnnlngs of colonial independence and re-
volt. The present old state house. the sec
ond structures for public purposes on the
same site, was built in 1713, and, though
burnt out in 1747, retained its exterior
walls. The upper halls, which, with the
roof and other external features of the
building, have been restored with the great
est accuracy and intelligence at the cost of
the city, are now as nearly as possible the
Same as those in which Otis denounced the
writs of assistance in 1851, when, as John
Adams, rapt spectator, declared, sThen
and there was the first scene of the first act
OF opposition to the arbitrary claims of
Great Britain; then and there the child in
dependence was born" Here Gen. Gage
was sworn in as colonial governor of s:the
Province of. Massachusetts Bay" in IVA.
And here Johni Hancock, as first governor
Of Massachusetts, administered the affairs
of state IN 1870; and from the center
window of the representatives hall. Wash
Ington, reviewed procession in his honor
in 1889.
THE wide use and abuse. and Injurious
effects of the Indian weed" is attracting
Unusual attention at the present time. and
Is producing more comment and criticism
than any other subject, unless we except
PooA'iOh. contemporary
gives the following interesting historic
moroccan of the rise and progress of the
habit of using the weed: Smoking is now
such universal habit with men that it is
strange to reflect that three hundred wears
ago the people of London used to flock to-
gether IN crowds to witness Capt. Thomas
Price and his companions smoke. The
weed was first introduced in England in
1886, and Sir Walter Raleigh, as i, well
known, first made the custom fashionable
King James made a royal attack on tobac.
co, which he abominated, but still indul.
gence IN the soothing narcotic grew apace
The seventeenth century was the golden
age of the divine weed in England. twas
then customary for ladies and beaux to
pull the fragrant incense at the theater and
IN the drawlng-room, land it has been stated
by writer of the time that the children
when they started to school, were provided
by their mothers with little pipes of tobac-
co which might serve to allay the cravings
OF hunger until they should return, ''the
master smoking with them and teaching
them how to hold their pipes and draw in
the tobacco" a- Tobacco chewing was prac-
ticed to limited extent about the time of
James the First, and the fashionable swell
of the day..sometimes carried about with
him III his hand small silver basin which
served as receptacle for the LIQUID.
HE keely motor secret still hangs fire.
The stockholders of the Motor company
have spent some S15O,OOO to enable the
inventor to carry on his experim ents, and
have resorted to judicial pro-
ceedlng to compel him to
diyulge his alleged secret. An agent
was agreed upon by all concerned to re-
ceive the secret. The agent, upon con-
ference with Mr.. Keely states that the time
has not yet come to divulge the secret. He
says Mr.. Keely has SO far perfected his in
vention as to entitle him to take out pat
ent, still the subject involves, ''the study
and application of vibratory forces,'' re-
quiring time, patience and the closest at
tention, both on the part of the inventor
and the investigator, to enable the
| P"AASSo ITO IL.
Or either to give such technical
description thereo as to meet the require.
ments OF the law, as the condition of OBJ
tanning valid letters patent" In plain
English, the ''secret" is too big for utter
ance-languags is inadequate to convey to
the mind any just idea of its unutterabIe
possibilities. The agent unhesitatingly
declares that Mr. Kelly has discovered a
new force Or motive power" the substance
of which is ''vaporic" or ''theric" force.
and possesses properties peculiar to it
SELF" and wholly phenomenal" This is
as clear and lucid as anything in the
dark, obscure of unfathomable mystery /.
The stockholders who have expended $15O.-
900 are yet in ignorance in regard to
this phenomenal force, and must wait
little longer for developments. Bat did
they not have the least suspicion of
humbug when they filed their
bill to force a revelation by judicial de-
cree? Keely and his motor" and his new
force" and the scientific agent appointed
to investigate are all clearly phenomenal,
and the public, with the pocket-blseding
stockholders, having waited patiently
for years in the past, must still wait pa