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Trimming Elephants Feet.
TRoctop G1oba

Yesterday Prof. George Arstingstall and
four assistants were occupied all day in trim
ming the feet of two elephants. The opera
ton is performed three times year-once
on the road, once in the fall and again in the
spring. The sole Of an elephants foot is
heavily covered with thick horny substance
of material similar to the three toe-nails upon
each foot, and as it grows thicker and thicker
it tends to contract and crack, often tanning
the animal. When the work of trimming is
undertaken, the elephant stands upon three
legs and places the foot to be operated upon
across a big tub. Two men hold the leg down
and one stands at the animals head to pre-
vent him from turning. Then Prof. Arstings-
tall, with two-foot drawing knife, proceeds
to shave OF great pieces OF bone from the sole
of the foot. Shavings of bone six inches by
four and q quarter of an inch thick are rep
idly cut, the edges of the foot being carefully
trimmed.
Often pieces of glass, wire, nails, etc., are
found imbedded in the foot, which have been
picked up during street parades. Sometimes
these irritating morsels work up into the leg
and produce a fostering sore. A large nail
was found yesterday in Pallis' foot imbedded
over three inches from the bottom. Prof.
Arstingstall extracted it with a small pair of
pincers, then syringed the wound with warm
water, and subsequently covered it with tar.
The professor, when hurried on the road,
sometimes draws out such nails with his
teeth. Pallis apparently suffered great pain,
but seemed to know that the operation would
give relief. He held the foot high and quietly
of his own accord until all was finished, then
fourished his trunk, trumpeted, and ex-
pressed almost in words his sincere thanks
After pairing the foot each toe-nail is cut be-
tween and then filed down, giving each foot
a white, clean look with its setting of pol
ished nails. 1t takes about six hours to finish
dressing an elephants feet, and it is said to
be one of the hardest bits Of work that men
have to do.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-23
Shocking the Military Dudes.
rChicopo Naxx,c

"No man has shocked effete Washington Of
late like little Phil" observed an army officer
as Gen. and Mrs Sheridan passed out of the
Palmer house rotunda yesterday to make a
call.
"What has he done?n
''Dones Why, he has dislocated the spines
of half a dozen dandy second ieutenants by
his brusque, transformations manners. Just
think of it. The commander of the entire
United States army refuses to use his carriage,
but walks in pleasant weather and rides in a
bob-tail car when it rains. Such thing has
never been heard of in Washington, for the
general rule is and has been that when an
official has the use of a government carriage,
so do his relatives. Washington dudes can
not realize that the stumpy 10 ok:ng, bow
legged little man is gallant Phil Sheridan"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-23
whipping Working Girls.

A story has been going the rounds that
working girls in Canada are whipped by
employers. A Toronto correspondent of
Boston paper says:
sit is nearly year since when, owing to my
fathers death, had to go to work. Shortly
after getting my place the forewoman told
me | had spoiled a pair of corsets by my care
lessness, and that she would either dismiss
me or else must take whipping. With
such an alternative, l submitted to whip
ping, and got very severe and humiliating
punishment, and seldom a day passes but
some girl-many of them almost women
gets whipped in the factory where l work,
and believe the same is pretty general.
The Sun was inclined to look upon the
stories as overdrawn, if not fabrications, as
it did not seem possible that human beings
could whip working girls but woman liv-
ing now in Milwaukee, writes as follows to
the editor of this paper:
1.-THE inclosed is from a Chicago paper and
know it to be true, as 1 have worked in
factories in Canada and England and have
myself been very severely whipped for spoil
ing work. l am now woman % years old,
and have been whipped this year two dozen
strokes on the bare hips with a riding whip,
and have seen girls whipped nearly every day
in the same way, bending over lounge with
the clothing entirely removed from the parts
named. If they refused to submit they were
discharged and pay lost"
If this is true Canada cannot be annexed to
the United States until the Dominion can
furnish certificate Of good character.
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The Grim, RemorseIess Monster.


Death is once more stalking abroad through
the length and breadth of the land, laying its
bony hand upon rich and poor alike, blowing
its icy breath into the nostrils of the proud
and humble and sealing with It's awful kiss
the eyelids of senility ana youth. Grim mon
ster, whose remorseless purpose no prayers
can avert, no tears hinder, and no promises
beguile Ill content with tie broken hearts,
the desolate homes, the wrecked ambitions,
the shattered idols, and the speeches niseries
with which thy hideous track is strewn, thou
hast, like an insatiate thief, stolen noiselessly
to a quiet, cheerful, happy hearthstone,
plucked therefrom its sweetest, brightest or
nament, and fed with it to the dark confine.
of the Plutonian shore, leaving Catherine
Lewis to beat her breast, tear her hair, and
otherwise express her grief at the demise of
her pet poodle dog.
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THE KING OF ooUNTERFEITERs.
A Secret He POssesses...Eis skill
In Sculpture.
IChicapo Mems

lSAicaSO News
Tom Ballard is beyond question the king Of
all counSerfelters. When the Canadian
bankers were shown the notes which he had
engraved for their banks they fairly trembled.
There is no known means of detecting thesa
counterfeits. They were perfect Tom was
a great chemist, as well as being one of the
most skillful engravers who ever lived.
Besides this, he was the instigator of each
new action, the designer and executor Of
each fresh counterfeit, and the means of
producing it. Most of these engravers are
useless in the other branches of the trade,
but Tom was the expert leader in all
things with his gang. He succeeded
IN making a counterfeit fibre paper
(the machinery for and the secret Of manu-
featuring which cost the government $780,
OOU which experts declare defies detection.
When Tom was captured he offered to dis
close to the United States government the
secret of making paper which it would be
impossible for any one to counterfeit if it
would repeal his sentence He is pleasant,
gentlemanly, kind, polite and attractive man
to meet, but is miserably morbid at times.
Twice since his imprisonment he has attempt
ed suicide. Once, shortly after his incarcer-
alton, he disemboweled himself with some
blunt-pointed weapon, but the doctor brought
him out of it all right Five years later,
while working at the shoemakers trade in
prison, he cut his throat from ear to ear with
a small knife. Both these attempts at self
destruction were caused by morbid feelings
of encouragement
After the second attempt, g. beautiful lit
tie bas-relief Of his home, with its flowers
about, its hanging vines, its green trees, and
his wife and family walking down the path
way to meet him, was found on the wall of
his cell. He had cut it out with sharp
stick OF some other equally primitive tool.
he is an exceptionally talented man in
dozen different ways. He is very popular
among the prison officials on account of his
gentlemanly and considerate action and
speech. These officials dare not show Tom
any partiality, but they, together with a
number of New York bankers and other in
fuential people are doing all they can to get
his sentence committed.
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E1E Sc PAUL SUNDAY GLOBE SUNDAY 1883

also got up and then when the guests went
off to sleep the host would go to his study
and work till far into the morning.
Such are few of the more striking trait
of man than whom none in all French lit
erature was more original and fecund, holder
and freer, more vilified and praised. He was
as regardless of the behests of society as
Byron, as hard a worker as Scott, as peculiar
as DR.. johnson, as generous as Goldsmith,
as hospitable as Rogers, as witty as Hood,
and as imaginative as Poe. No wonder,
therefore, that Paris, after more than ten
years of silence, has called to mind her old
favorite and prodigy, and now cannot say
too much in his praise, nor do too much in
honor of his memory. Alexander Dumas,
dead, IS indeed alive again.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-23
VISIONS OF JIM-JAMs.
The Experience OF q Man Who Delhi.
erately Quits Business and Gets
DRINK

erately Quits Business and Gets
Drunk.
Frank Wilkeson in New York Sun
1.-THE warnings some drinking men receive
are very strange" said the Oldest of our
party. 81 know several men who are spreers
who have warnings generally visions more
or less horrible, but invariably the same,
when they approach the wall behind which
the jim-jams lurk. Probably the most strik-
ing case is that of gentleman who inherited
his diseased craving for alcohol. He will
not drink, it may be, for a year. Then he
will put his business in such shape that he can
leave 1t for few days, and deliberately get
drunk. For two days he devotes his energies
to getting drunk, and staying drunk. He is
not OF the least trouble to any one when he is
drinking. He shuts himself up in his room
and drinks alone In two days he will drink
gallon of the best sour mash bourbon
whisky money can buy. He always begins
drinking in the evening. The third evening
he goes to bed in a beastly state of intoxica-
ton.
cat about midnight his vision comes to
him. He dreams that he went to bed and
slept soundly until awakened by a hard,
white Pickering light. He lies awake won
dering what causes the light, and hears q
loud knock on his bedroom door, "Come inl''
he cries. The door is thrown wide open, and
a man who has been freshly fayed stalks in.
The fayed man smiles in CHASTITY manner
and mods in friendly recognition. The flesh
is gone from his mouth. His teeth grin
mockingly. He stations himself opposite the
bed end leans against the wall, his shoulders
olyir Ixr,, ,~1rvr l, III.
idless eyes roll, and his tongue lolls The
bedroom door remains open. My friend looks
out Of the door into the street. There he sees q
long column of dayed men marching rapidly
down the road. Stragglers drop out from the
column and enter his room.
"When ten men have entered his bedroom
door closes. The fayed men, who are cov-
cred with fresh blood, walk silently around
the room looking at him. They point their
bloody fingers at him. At signal from the
man who first entered they all march out
Presently they return, each carrying a
fayed and bloody corpse The blood has
dried on the live men while they were alb
sent, and it flakes from them as they re-enter
the room with their CHASTITY burdens. The
corpses are placed OH the floor in a row, side
by side. At a signal from the leader of the
skinless horrors they straddle the dead
bodies, and, bending over, grasp them around
their waists. Then, Strengthening up with
the legs of the dead men between their own,
they move around the room in weird
dance, now advancing, now retreating, taen
ci1'clia, around the led, and always Ieerirg
and grnning at NY friend. Alter desperate
efforts he awakens, and the vision disap-
pears. 1t is his warning to quit drinking,
and he needs it, too"
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Norwegian Farming.
[St. Louis obe-Democrat.


Farming in the Norwegian valleys presents
some unique aspects. Grain, potatoes and
turnips grow in little patches. Meadow hay
is carefully cut and cured on rods or ropes
supported on tall poles. Every corner on
which grass will grow is utilized for hay, even
the little hooks among the crags from which
it is lowered to the valleys by means of ropes
or wires, that nothing may be lost. The
Scandinavian COWS are of a peculiar national
breed, and not only they, but goats, and
even ewes, contribute to the cheese watts.
Horses are seldom larger than mere ponies.
These little animals do all the farm work,
for in Norway oxen are employed for tillage.
Norway is sparsely settled. Emigration is
taking away its more ambitious sons and
daughters. But its people are intensely
patriotic, and their land contains much te
delight the traveller.
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that the woman on his left was crying
softly.n
''You said something last night about your
ambition to be master of that estate. Do you
remember what it wasp
eyes, think do Something boastful, was
1t notg'
George Fenby was beginning to under
stand dimly why he had received the letter
he had
"Worse than that. Did you ever think that
one overhearing it might think you meant to
marry Miss Kingsleye'
"Never until now. Oh, what have done?'
s'No matter. Did you ever intend to marry
here Not a word of objection. You've
been led into answering too much already to
stop now. demand an answer, George.
Did your
The eyes of the two men met. In Ralph's
here was the discrimination to know, and
perhaps something more. In George Fenby's
there was surprise which changed to satisfac
ton and Indignation, which gradually faded
out
'Never, on my honor" he answered.
Ralph Warden stopped the horse. They
had driven far to the south, and had now
turned back toward the village again. In
front of them was the level sweep of frozen
marsh, but further on was the peaceful vii
lage with its lighted windows and with its
range of sheltering, wooded hills behind it.
On the right was the sea, calm and bright.
He stepped into the road and placed the
reins in George Fenbys unresisting hands.
Bring the horse home when it is all right, :"
he said, 'but take all the time you wish.
Here is another paper of yours which I found
this morning. Be thankful tonight that so
meddlesome man found it. Alice Arnden
and George Fenby, 1 give you back your fu-
ture-and my blessing"
He spoke to the horse, and, obedient to
his word, it dashed down the road and left him
alone.
There is no more need of following the
lovers, to be sure that all came right, than
there is of following the rushing mountain
stream to be sure it finds the sea-
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MT. DESERT-A RETROSPECT.
I"F. We in Dsmorest's Monthly.

[s'F. W." in Demorest's Monthly.l
a happy girl at Nit. Desert,
A chaperon, man or two
A college oaIsnan all alert
To guide Alright the birch-canoe.
A blackboard ride DER hill and dale
Lively college songs that echo far;
Then, dipping oars, and twilight pale,
And twanging of soft guitar.
A moonlight row, a campfire glow,
A sail across the sun-it harbor;
A mountain walk, quiet talk
A friend of whom no chance can rob her.
A dainty costume for the Hop,
A score Of favors at the German;
a heeland-toe that cannot stop,
A chance acquaintance with some mer- IMAM
A tennis-cap for valor made,
A dim piazza meant for strolling,
A hush-a midnight serenade,
A sound of jolly numbers trolling.
Then
A folding of the costumes gay,
And no more time to laugh and fiirt,
A few last words, big bouquet,
A waving hand-and Mt. Desert
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"A Romantic Ra5iroader.
chicago Herald.l

There came to Chicago last week as the
host and entertainer OF Duke Gwin, in a
special car, a young man whose career has
been almost as romantic as the Dukes is ia
NOUS Jerome A. Fillmore is his name.
Born and reared on rocky farm in Pepnsyl-
vania, he used to go to country school in
summer with bare feet and straw hat with
his hair sticking out of the crown. One day,
when he was about IL years old, surveyors
came by his fathers farm with their tripods
to survey the Delaware, Lackawanlla s.
Western railroad. The boy looked On curl
ously and wondered what it meant. Next
year the rails came AID Win them q loconlo-
i've. /. Gt vas Inoug for the boy Re
would neglect MS chores and steal of to
watch the locomotive He refused to study.
He would steal rides on the gravel trains and
associate with the workmer. When the road
was completed and coal trains Were put on
one day Jerome turned up missing.
Active search was made and in a week or
SO the fat sturdy boy was found. He was
brakeman on coal train at $25 month as
a starter. The station agent near his fathers
farm had put him on the road, and the old
folks were furious. That was about twenty
five years ago. There is no need to follow
the boy in his course. 1t was always upward.
Last week he came to Chicago with his fam
lily, and Duke Gwin, in a special car, as gen
eral superintendent of the Central and South
ern Pacific railway system, and everywhere
recognized and admired as one of the finest
railway managers in the United States. His
salary is $4,000 a year, and it would, per-
haps, be doubled before he would be allowed
to leave the compeny's service. Boys, the
chances are not all gone by any means.
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Wanted a Little Celery.

Chicago Tribune.]
A tramp called at an uptown residence the
other day.
Gimme somethin' to eatF' he asked.
He was handed huge chunk of meat and
a piece of bread.
''Can't We gimme little celery!"
Celery" asked the lady.
"Yes, celery. You see, I've got the rheu-
matiz, and the faculty says celery is just the
thing to knock it. 1 would like piece of
the heart The inside is the tenderest and
best for rheumatic, BECAUSE
The door was slammed in his face
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htion, rest his weary limbs for the nigiA
Inns worked very well for some time, birs
one night the bed he had already taken was
rented to late conner, who complained to
the clerk. Then the two hauled him out Of
oed, sat on him, kicked him, punched him,
pulled his ears and choked him till they
were tired Then they gave him coat Of
turpentlne and kicked him down stairs, he
Vowlng ne would never patronize the house
agaln-and he has kept his word.
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Partisan Recreation Grounds.
foreign Letter.

A large part of the expense of maintaining
the public squares and promenades in Paris
is met by the duties paid to the municipality
By proprietors of establishments situated in
them, such as open-air concerts, restaurants
and Punch and Judy shows, as well as by the
contractors who provide chairs for the pub
he, and even the owners of the little goat
chaises for children. An official return
shows that the Champs Eiysees alone pro-
duce in this way III, Ass francs a year, and
the Bots de Boulogne 213, 100 francs. The
total receipts of this kind for the whole of
the public lands in Paris are ,3 S43 SCI francs
per annum. The cost of maintenance, Oh
the other hand, is setdown at 1,6O0, 900 francs,
without reckoning the services of the police
officials
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The First Patent.
[Chicago Herald.l

1t is thought that the earliest patent il the
United States was that granted by the COM
nlonwea!tL OF Massachusetts, to Samuel
Winslow. who had method of manufacture
ing salt None are to make this article"
said the patent, ''except in manner different
from his, provided he set up his works within
a year,
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a Mad Artist.
New York Advertiser

s'Why is Abbey like the great Raphaels
asked musical gentleman of an artist up
near Union Square, the other evening. 81
amt see any Likeness, was the reply. ''Well,
I'll tell you, said the musician: 'Heisa great
fellow to bring out prima donnas, isn't he's"
YES" 'And so was Raphael a great hand
If bringing out prime Madonnas!n. The
srlist fed, rav'ng mad.
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Plantation Philosophy.
[ Arkansaw Traveller. |

Yer doan hab as good chance OBJ fnin'
out what kinder stuff rich mans made
outen as yer do de poor man, fur we doan
know de quality OBJ de aig till it's broke.
Use 'spicious OBJ de man what is always
claimin' ter be working in de intrust OBJ I'D
der foxes, case he forces me ter one OBJ two
conclusions: dat he is eder fool ur a liar
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A Junk Dealers Fortune.
Exchange

In the days of the war New York Junk
dealer amassed fortune by buying fine linen
clippings from shirt-rnakers and selling them
to the government for the manufacture OF
treasury note paper. He bought at $ cents
pound and sold st 20 cents.
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A Pugilistic Pun.

Speaking of the story that Ryan, who was
knocked silly by Sullivan two years ago,
when his truss got loose, The Chicago Times
says Ryan is going to 'tplace his truss in
Providence and fight Sullivan again. That
is not SO bad, either.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-23

The Mississippi annually carries SIS, sol,
00O.0 600 pounds of mud into the gulf of Mex
leo. So says scientific chap.
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Blue Flood.
washington World.l

Countess: 81 told you expressly to paint
the chamber blood color, and you have made
1t blue" Painter: 81 beg your pardon, I
thought the gracious countess had blue
blood"
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Gen. Sherman's retired pay will be s15, COO
per aDnunl.
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ence of liquor, but drunk or sober, his
dignity never leaves him. He minds his
own business and commands the considera-
ton of the rabble with whom he is thrown
into contact. Only once did half-drunken
hoodlum seek quarrel with him, and then
the Major drew a horse-pistol and requested
his adversary to produce a similar weapon
and fight like a gentleman. Since that
time he has not been molested. Such are
the characters to be seen in these places,
nearly all brought there by strong drink
and affording an excellent temperance lee
ture. Not infrequently an unfortunate,
crazed by drink, will arouse the neighbor-
hood with his rawlings, while many have put
an end to their sufferings and made their
Last appearance in the world at the morgue.
Any night clerk is full Of experiences and
can tell of many a hard fight forced on him
by drunken roughs, in which clubs were
often used and sometimes more formidable
weapons. When man makes trouble in
the house the clerk must put him out, no
matter how powerful or desperate he may
be, and the clerks life is at once very ur
pleasant and pcrilous one. Often he will bs
browbeaten by roughs who viii endeavor
by threats to obtain q free lodging. but If
he is the man for the place the attempt
always fails. One fellow, however, used to
accomplish by strategem what many had
failed to obtain by force Waiting until
some late stranger entered the house to OBJ
tain room, he would follow him in. While
the night clerk was conducting the ledger
to his resting place, he would conceal him
self somewhere in the halls. When the clerk
returned to his place, and all vTas serene,
the hummer would go to a room he knew to
be unoccupied, and climbing TIE low par