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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-06
The Real House.

The real home is in the country; and
it is something more than dwelling /;
the fields and trees around it are part
Of it, and the views from it of the land
scape, and of distant mountains, per-
haps, make it unlike any other place in
the world. The country home, with ite
fxity Of surroundings, has usually some
measure of permanence, and the social
life formed there is under the favor
able conditions of old family assooia-
tions. Some have the happy condition
of living in the home of their fathers,
and are surrounded with objects of
precious memory, daily mementos of
parental affection and instruction.
The home which it makes is the best
thing of farm life. There is necessity
of permanence, and as there is no sud-
den OF great accumulation of wealth or
large increase, the family is free from
that discomfort which usually comes
with sudden or great acquisition. 1t is
one Of the compensations Of their con
dition that the farmers family is in that
fxity of surroundings" which favors
their highest culture.-N. Reed, in
Country Gentleman.
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Counting an Army by Grains of Corn.

When Lees army was passing
through Chambersburg, Pa, N lA.3,
on the way to Gettysburg, Mr.. Nessex-
smith, the cashier Of the bank, took .
station on the bank-steps and under
took to ascertain the number of rebels,
tAHying every hundred men On slip
of paper in his hand A rebel officer
ordered him to daeist under threat Of
being placed in arrest. Mr.. Me,sar-
smith bowed and proceeded to his bas n
and obtained 100 grams of corn, which
he held in his right hand, which WIS
thrust in his pan+aloons pocket. He
again took his stand on the steps Of the
of the bank, and for every 100 men
that passed be dropped grain Of corn.
When his hand was empty he had num-
bered 10, 600 men, and then he gathered
the grains up again to repeat the
enumeration Thus he stood in the hot
sun-and, indeed, the weather uas
scoRching at the time-counting, until
he had numbered the entire host,
amounting to 10000 men. During the
night he communicated to Gov. Curtin
the information he had obtained.
N1Ick Citizen,
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Eve Service.

Upon going into downtown Office I
saw two boys at work addressing en-
velopes-or rather, one was at work,
while the other, with his pen in his
hand, was looking out of the window.
Their employer was seated near
by, and, when he caught my eye, he
smiled.
Which of those two boys is the
better workman, and the most valued,
do you think? ?" he asked me in a low
voice.
"The one at work, I should suppose"
I rejoined.
"No, sir; that lad who is looking from
the window now does so because he
thinks there is no harm in it-does it,
you see, under my eyes. On the other
hand, while my eye is on them, the
other boy is the most industrious, but
[ find in my absence he does moth
ing. SO you see he adds deceit to his
fault. I would not trust him out of my
sight"
1T seems to me that neither of them
is worth very much"
"To be sure" came the immediate
answer, "a boy who attended to his
duties at all times would be best; but a
boy who renders eye service merely,
who cannot be trusted to work without
watching, IS not to be tolerated.
The man who had seen this had seen
much Of the world; he knew whereof he
spoke, and perhaps some of our young
readers viii profit by his words
Gracious JFOTds.
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Gambling in the Army.

Said an old army correspondent re-
garding the revelations of gambling
among army officers at Washington {:
"It is not to be wondered at
that idle army officers should gamble
when it is fact that the vice was a
common one during the most active
campaigns of the late war. I have
seen men spend the evening between
two days of battle in playing cards
for stakes. It wasn't exactly gambling
under fire, but it was the next thing to
it. There was hardly an officers mess,
regimental or staff, that was not po-
ker club, and thousands of dollars
changed hands after each visit of the
paymaster. Freeze-out poker, the win
ner to maintain the mess until the next
pay day, was common form of gam
ling among the officers. Many of the
private soldiers were lively gamblers,
and hardly company was without its
poker sharp'-usually a cool, quiet,
goody-goody' sort of chap from some
country district. Early in the war pro-
fessional gamblers haunted every depot
of supplies, and pressed upon Commits
sioners, Quarternasters and Paymas-
tiers. One or two Paymasters lost fab
ulous sums to these sharks; then de-
faulted, were sent to prison and the
gamblers fed to Canada until the storm
blew over. The vice is as common
and as fashionable in the army among
officers and privates as it ever was-the
only difference is that the army is not
quite as large as twas"
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Six Hundred Feet Underneath New Or
leans,

In his graphic account of "Flood and
Plague in New Orleans" George w.
Cable describes as follows the geolog-
ical formations underneath the city as
was ascertained in boring an artesian
we'll: "The alluvial surface deposit is
generally two OF three feet thick, and
rests on a substratum of uniform and
tenacious blue clay. The wellin Canal
street found this clay fifteen feet deep.
Below it lay four feet more of the same
clay mixed with woody matter. Under
this was mixture of sand and clay
ten feet thick. resembling the annual
deposits of the river. Beneath this
was found, one after another, continual,
irregular alterations of these clay
strata, sometimes a foot, sometimes
sixty feet thick, and layers of sand and
shells and of mixtures of these with
clay. Sometimes @ stratum of quick
sand was passed. At $50 feet was en-
countered O layer of hard pan; but
throughout no masses of rock were
found, only few water-worn pebbles
and some contorted and perforated
stones. No abundance of water flowed.
The continual alterations of tough
clay and loose sand and shells in such
variable thicknesses gave clear Illus
tration of the conditions of delta soil
that favor the undermining of the
Mississippi banks and their fall into the
river at low stages of water, levees be-
ing often carried with them" - The
Century.
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John Kelly. the Tamlnany Leader.


Ha5 jo1a Kelly further aspirations
IN FounGs
es, he desires to be made Comp
'E('i'er OF New 5 l 9ri' a55a;n, Nelly 5 am
y ~ / amos pouno'ie'S' ouC ne Is
{ - az J,..h 20 -, a.e C-';-1 he can ho0 De
's'-'''' Il IRON 'i''S . ,'''9, nor governor
q: - q = HF 'i:., l'tll iG1 can
80 i itt $50 t5.''' -, ',iolleH H lie IS
b. enough 70 "eti@Fe caaG any OF these
- s. =, ''.' h]''e i9f l'im 10 ASA
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i1i'' { i--l~,'s S+f .t'-''L,o OF VLc pap
X :''ise. iie'e - 40 man IN the
rli--t -. t-5 mo Is anys.'oG Eke
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Draw Poker.

A man who can sit in his pew If
church when the collection plate i
being passed, with his eyes riveted OF
the ceiling and seeming to be engaged
in silent prayer, while lis fingers are in
his pockets squeezing nickel till the
finger nails are blood-shot, has mistaken
his calling. Such man should rope 10
suckers to play poker. The most SUE
cessful poker player we ever knew WIS
a truly good man, who acted as usher IL
q church. He could disguise his fl e.
ings so you couldn't tell whether he h;G
sequence or pair Of deuces. Z;
would draw to pair of queens and st
two more, and then he would throw
down his hand in disgust, but finally,
he thought it over, he would say that he
guessed he would simply chip. so he
wouldn't loose his blind, and somebody
would bet $40 to raise him out, and ne
would see and raise and come hack VIZ.
q roll and scare the man out Of his
boots. He was very successful, but
finally they brought charges against
him for heresy, and he went West with
his savings, and now owns q bonanza
farm in Dakota.
Poker is being played so largely in
society that man must be mighty
careful how he sits into game. Not
long ago gentleman who had played
some years ago was at card party at
the home of friend, and he was in
vited to set in with a couple of dudes
and a couple of dudesses, and, being
an old bachelor, he thought he woulu
show them that, though he was no
dude, he could play poker. The first
hand he got three ten spots, and girl
drew one card and bet dollar. He
raised her S., thinking she might have
two pair, when she came back at him
with SO bet, and he laid down his
three ten spots, believing she hal
filed. As she rabed in the money SIR
laid down Eer hand, ana it was bob
tail flush. TIE bacie or said she
played that bob-tail flush as though
she had fours, and there was not q
movement of a muscle of her face,
though she breathed hard, and there
was seal-skin cloak CLEAN in her eye
that paralyzed him. On the other
hand, she looked as though she had
lost every friend she had, and seemed
to be sick with ennui, and her whole
face, as she simply put up chip,
seemed to be pleading with him to
please not bet high, as she was only a
poor orphan, but he bet so, just to
show her that he knew his business, and
to get his money back. Instead of
laying down her hand, she languidly
threw down $50, and said she would
raise him $40, just to keep up the in
terest. and, thinking Of her bob-tail
flush that she had bluffed him on before.
he put up the money, and she threw
down four jacks, as innocent as a baby,
and he had only a nine-spot full, and
she, as she raked in the money, laughed
so sweetly that the bachelor said he
didn't care for the money. The game
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The AssDr Place Riots.

Tie trouble arose because of what
was believed to have been the ili-tteat-
ment received by Edwin Forrest, the
tragedian, while in England. When
W. G. Macready, the English tragedian,
came to this country and his appear
pearance at the Astor Place Ope1a
House was announced, an immense fac
ton declared he should never be al
lowed to play. True to their word, on
the night of his first performanc q wild
mob filled the theater and surrounded
it, fully 10000 strong. I was then il
command of the Seventh Regiment,
and at o'clock in the afternoon I re-
ceived orders to be ready to quen the
expected riot at the evening perform
anoe. By 6 o'clock the regiment had
assembled in the Armory. personally
superintended the distribution of am
munition to the men, and I would like
to take occasion now to settle q ques-
ton in dispute in this respect. There
was not man in the regiment in pos
session of blank cartridge on that
night, and any story to the effect that
blank cartridge was used is purely fc-
titious. We fired to hurt. Toward 8
o'clock we received orders to dispense
the mob, and by the time we reached
Astor Place it was fully that hour. The
regiment was as yet with empty guns,
but when I saw what I had to deal
with, the instant order was close col
umns en- masse and load at will. Had
it not been for this I verify believe the
mob would have massacred the whole
regiment. Their attack upon us was
at once furious and determined, but we
responded in like measure. Of the
rioters 1874 were killed outright and
over 100 wounded. Several of our
boys received pistol-shots and 143 were
wounded with stones and other mis-
siles. Thirty-two stand of arms were
broken in the hands of our men, but
the State replaced them. I have al
ways believed the firing on that night
was salutary lesson to the mob spirit
in this city.-Gen. AbrGm DaLrVea.
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Slightly Mixed.

The scene is the Office of Denver
silver mining company. Enter the
President, wearing puzzled expression
of countenance.
Secretary Anything new this morn
ing?"
President (confdentially)-"Say, I
was little off last night"
Eyes"
"And I'm little mixed this morning.
Do we declare dividend of 20 cents
per share to-day?"
ooh, no, sir We declare an assess
ment of 40per cent. per share instead"
exactly. Well, that's better
a great deal better. Young man, let
my case be warning to you never to
touch whisky. I came mighty near
telling Old Peters that we should de-
clare dividendp-WaU Street Neacs.
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# ,suszasos s~sA, Kaiir. &c &c snrx 6c~H
IS r-ersS.S 40 s4r. 8r-~ss'. ~ StTro,Sh
H.. ssse~t. tlsh~A - IN lie .r-griq' sIuis
.ior - r.s~sve+. The oid rrrDs-s7,rna,
B. ~ eort~ vii ssr: 'co1 cr-=r,
.on.? At the next oo4nes ths sssed ron
>~+;rqrorr-ronder vii career~s: Va,
i rroi-et you" AConp Of men vii
i.g4r. 'fohn Kelly, and OF will <:
A-r lists lie !,yr.e ihss .4rt .
homage. There j. % Office vail y
can receive which will give MN ANY
lhnx ike the i-p~-r II Comnsrosef o'
View York city. Holding the lcrete
,trings w shis great me<toroiis, Ae Ia
It IN his power to s"rTe frienl, Of hia u,
many ways. He is fond OF revenge, and
20 i-e restored to The COMPREHENSIVE
VII please him ID this respect
George AlfreI Townsend.
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A Druggists Mistake Fatal.

A beautiful young lady tripped into
the drug store few days ago, and told
young Speight, who presides there,
that she wished some castor oil, and
asked him if he could mix it up so as
to disguise the taste of it.
ooh, yes" says Speight. Presently
Speight said:
"Will you have glass of soda-water,
Miss -"
ooh, yes" says she. After drinking
the saltwater the young lady waited
awhile, and then asked Speight if the
castor-oil was ready.
@uh!" says Speight, you have al
ready taken the castor-ol in the soda
water"
Great heavings!" said the young
lady, Il wanted the oil for my mother"
Fort Gaines (Ter) Tribune.
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Golden Grains.

FIXED resolves need short pFofes-
SONS.
He who speaks sows; he who listens,
reaps.
Pride often miscalculates, and more
often misconceives.
AS every golden thread is valuable so
rs every minute.
It is wisdom to think, and folly to sit
without thinking.
To indulge consciousness OF good
ness is the way to lose it
Had there never been cloud, there
had never been rainbow.
The one prudence in life is conoen-
tration, the one evil is dissipation.
We should never throw off politeneas
even in our conflicts with coarse people.
Select that course of life which is the
best, and custom will render it most
pleasant.
y A silent hour under the stars may
whisper to your soul great thoughts Of
eternity.
If we find no faults in ourselves, we
should not take pleasure in observing
those of others.
Those who have no patience Of their
own forget what demand they make On
that Of others.
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En q Russian Prison.

IN the coils Of the upper and MD lie
i.rs are put the least-compromised
criminals. All the cells are the same
size ten feet long, seven feet wide and
twe,ve feet high. The doors have each
'~n openings-one l.rge eAo1gh for tho
d.-;!y food and drink TO bs PASSED.
aAr ugh it, and the other OK analier
sie4e. to serve as a spy}.n&.. 'or sh" alters.
The daors are also e4..h f'., b Aied with two
Il. iioois-+!Ie key OF ole .a'g IN tiIo
jaier's custody, w:l'te tiE5 Ci Sile Other
rt4a.iLs IL charge of tl.e coinriandeut
81 the f.rtY-sS The dish from Wh-;h
ti.t. prisoners eais is pushed in Through
gro ives cut in a plate OF iron which
projects from the interior of the door at
tie height of about four feet from the
iioor. The dish cannot, therefore, be
removed by the prisoner, who must
take his food standing against the door
and tits with q spoon which is at
tackled to the plates The drinking
water is put into sort Of jug hinged to
tie door. When the prisoner wishes to
drink he must get down on his knees
AM turn the vessel upon its hinges or
pirots. Food is supplied at II o'clock
III the morning aad six in the evening,
and ordinarily consists of oatmeal grael
aud quarter of kilogram of meat
beside this there Is daily allowance OF
q silogram of rye bread.
Tie prisoners bed consists OF a
plank, six feet 10y three, with p straw
matttoes, sheet 50 strong and coarse
that il i, impossible 70 tear it, and q
covering OF felt-Nll Of which articles
are taken away during the day. The
dress consists of gray wooden jacket
quito Sort and tight-fittinS, short pan
Ito. Us of the same color, and long felt
',tots. For women toe i, loe& is sup
s1el and Gray skirt aided. The
y ;s,Iers must get up at q c'cioc&l AID
*, l." b.ezl ags;n at 8. It i&s be L ascer-
:; Il }, b. ulss9s OF secl~ o'seo-yaf ions,
". .i ace constantly taken Si.r"nGii the
peep holes, that, as a genera rule. the
priSon.&s SPEND the long hours from
Their rising Until Nieir breakfast in
,,.~ .:ng to and fro in their eek; after
t,.6 Hrsy are won't 10 remain quiet for
I'll hour or SO, only to give way next to
an excess If dasolate despair which
IT,. il p,tia!he situation may well inspire.
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CONTRACT WORK.
Grading Third Street.

OFFICE CT THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS,
CRY OF ST. PAUL. MIMI. Aug. 81. 1883.
Sealed bids will be received by the Board of
Public Works in and for the corporation of the
City of st. Paul, Minnesota, until u M, on
the 14th day of September, A. D. 1888, for the
grading of Third street from Broadway to Kit
son street in said city according to plans and
specifications on file in the effice of said
Board.
A bond, with at least two (2) sureties, in a
sum of at least twenty COY per cent. of the
gross amount bid, must accompany each bid.
The said Board reserves the right TO reject
any or all bids
VIM. BARRETT, President pro tenn.
Official: r. L. GoRMAN.
Clerk Board of Public Works. 244-5r
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Didn't Want ANY.

A tramp of the lowest species walked
into high-toned saloon the other day,
and, after eveing the elegant luLch for
a while, walked up to the bar and said
to the mixologist:
"Will you give me drink? I haven't
q cent"
go ask the proprietor" said the
bartender.
The tramp shufled up to the pro-
prietor and asked him the same ques-
lion.
mo, sir, I'll not give you any of my
expensive goods.
The tramp gave one lingering look at
The lunch and the bar. and turning to
The proprietor, savagely sad:
"Then I'll be darped if L eat any Of
your lunch. Carl PretzepS H'eekly.
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.HEALTHIS WEALTH

DR.. e. G. Vests nerve and brain treatment,
specific for hysteria, dizziness, couyulsio1s,
nervous headache, mental depression, loss of
memory, premature old age, caused by over
e1ertion or over-indulgence, which leads to mis-
cry, decay and death. One box will cure recert
cases, Each box contains one months treat
ment. One dollar box or six boxes for FIVE
dollars, sent by mail prepaid on receipt Of price.
We guarantee six boxes to cure any case. With
each order received by us for six bezss, accom-
panied with five dollars, We will g. ID the pur-
chaser our written guarantees to rstuI,: the money
il the treatment does not effect eura. Guar
antees issued only by Lsmbie i Co., corner
Third and Wabeshaw streets, St. Paul, .MiAr.
Orders by mail promptly attended to-
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SUGGESTIONS or vAIxA.

Do Rof negBeet 70 put ca 4 ps&r o
gloves before beginning 70 sweep, /
you wiah to keep the hands con AZ,
smooth.
A SMALL heated bar of from applied
to the head Of q rusted screw will rem
der its Withdrawal as easy as one JUS
inserted
WHEN bread is taken from the oven
wiring a clean cloth out of water and
wrap around. Then cover lightly with
the usual bread cloth. This makes the
crust nice and tender.
A LITTLE powdered borax put in the
water in which laces, muslins and lawns
ase washed will improve their appear
anoe greatly; use Just as little soap o.
you possibly can.
A PASTE made Of whiting and benzoin
will clean marble; and one made OF
whiting and chloride of soda, spread
and Left to dry Tin the sun if possible
on the marble, will remove spots.
A GOOD way to clean lamp-burners
when they have become covered with
SCOT and gum is to boil them up in a
strong solution of soda water. The
vioks need an occasional Washing, too,
10 remove sediment.
MECHANICS who desire to produce a
deep brilliant black upon iron and steel
may try the following recipe: Apply
with fine hair brush mixture of tur-
pentine and sulphur which had been
hoiled together.
. LIZ you dip your broom in clean hot
sds once week, then shake it till it
is almost dry, and then hang it up, or
stand it with the handle down, it will
last twice as long as it would Without
this operation.
THE approved manner of eating an
egg is the English fashion Set the
egg upright in the cup, make an orifce
in one end and eat out of the shell,
favoring 10 taste. Eggs diseolor silver
so much, little ivory spoons may be
used for egg-spoons. If Of silver the
spoon should be laid in cold water as
soon as used.
THE Little white worms which some
times make the earth in a plant-jar
look as If is alive, can be driven out by
stopping the hole in the bottom of the
jar, then cover the earth with water IN
which you have dissolved little lin
Let this stand for several hours, =
IS not likely that you will DO l. co. ).
with the worms any more.
SILVER IN constant use should bs
washed every day in pan OF suds mad,
of good white soap and warm water,
drying it with old soft linen cloths.
Twice week latter this washing) give
it thorough frightening with finely
powdered VIII ting, mixed to a thin
paste with aLoAol, rubbing longer and
harder where there are stains. Then
wipe this off and polish with clean, soft
old linen.
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GenerOus-Iiearted Nose.

"Say, Nose" said an Austin coiorel
Jude to an old darker more famous for
his ability to punish whisky that to IT.
ritate work Of any description, "didn't
Miss Car'line usetar be an old flame Oh
yours?"
eyes, Rube," repl;el Old Nose, Il
dun specs Car'line and l useter he
mighty thick, L tel yer. She Tilted me
onct."
Oats what I tho't. Car1no was
married las ebenin."
Fac"
WHO married z"
''Peg-legged j. ="
cam dat so? SOW, eff I'd know'd
she wer' gwine ter fro herself away on
da5 remnant oh man in dat s5yi, I'd
hi MI at myself and axed her agin." >
TEXAS ,Siytings,
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t.su., Nest.

Tie Yankee 10y IS said 20 be dJ-is 8
W. In New Hampshire the d:str =
,cllo Is are nos as they were gener4.
lou ago. Benches which were crowicd
len are nearly empty now, and in The
place OF merry groups of childrn scat
tered along the roadway, here and there
solitary scholar takes up his lonely
walk to school. The towns very gener-
ally make liberal provision for their
schools, but they have not the children
to send.
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CONTRACT WORK
Grading MENDOZA Street.
CFFICE OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS,
CITY OF ST. PAUL. MIMI, Sept. 5, 1888.

Sealed bids will be received by the Board of
Public Works In and for the corporation of the
city of st. Paul, Minnesota, at their Office in ssid
city, until II m. on the 18th day of Septem-
Der, A. D. 1883, for the grading of Mendoza
street, from the right of way Of the Chicago,
st. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad COM
pany to Seventh street in said city, according
to plans and specifications on file in the Office of
said Board,
A bond with at least two (2) sureties in a
sum of at least twenty coy per cent. of the
gross amount bid must accompany each bid.
The said Board reserves the tight to reject any
or all bids.
III. KOCH, President PRO tenn.
Official. r. L. GORMAN.
Clerk Board of Public Works. 249-259