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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-21
: An Odd State of Finances.
Detroit Free PreSs.l

The commercial relations between FL Paso,
Texas, and the Mexican town, Ell Paso del
Norte, just across the river, threaten to be
seriously disturbed. A Mexican dollar is
valued at SIS cents in American coin. Our
neighbors, not liking the depreciation of their
national coin, resolved to depreciate ours
Their board of trade solemnly decided that
American silver dollars should be deprecated
so cents, or pass current for S. cents in Mexi-
can silver.
The Mexican board of trade saw the folly
of their financial scheme when it was put to
the test by one of the conductors on the
street car line that connects the rival cities.
One morning he started for the American
side with Mexican silver dollar. On ar
irving On the other side he took a drink of
their native thanksgiving whisky, price
Is cents. He was given an American
dollar in change. He repeated this at regu
lar intervals during the day, and at night
had the same Mexican dollar he started out
with. It is very likely the board of trade
will revise its queer system of finance Mex
lean paper money is at % per cent. dis
oO11pt
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-21
Chinese s1aT SzerS.

But 6evout gamblers as the Rocky noun
tanners are, the impassive children Of the
''yellow eve" are still most passionately de-
voted to that facile form Of ruin.
Three stories always stuck fast in the MEM
DRY Of the writer's childhood They were
told by n. Hue, the Chinese traveller. One
was that in row Of 100 criminals in pro-
cess of decapitation, YOU saw themen at the
busy end Of the-line thrlsting out their heads
to be-lopped off, and at the waiting enfof the
line you saw the criminals cracking jokes
and watermelon seeds with happy indifference
to their fate. His second story is that you
can cure donkey's braying by tying stone
to his tail, OF nights His third story, that
the Chinese are,so extremeg gamblers that at
Pekin, after they have played away all their
'cash" they stake their clothes and their
shoes and finally their fingers. Losing
finger they chop it off, dip the stump into
boiling tar and continue the diverting
pastime.
Inquiry among the Chinese in this city
failed to find any confirmation Of this story.
''The nearest approach to it, said a we'll
known Chinaman, "that KNOW of my own
knowledge is this: A gambler in my town.
having lost all his money, offered to stake
his wife on cast of the dice The former
winners went to view the property which the
gambler offered to stake, and, after careful
inquiry, returned and said that they would
stake 80 worth Of cash-the little copper
coins with holes in thenl-against their oppo-
nents wife. They cast the three dice and the
husband won. Curiously enough, his wife
never knew anything about it, and her hus-
band, having got his capital back, never
stakef her again.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-21
IN AGARDFN.
re-. B. Stuart, in London Argosy.]

re-. B. Stuart, in London ArgBy.]
There's gardenuf my childhood that / only
see in dreams.
Ever sunshine lies upon it, shadows only
passing fit;
Thro' the vista of my memory very fair that
garden seems,
And I sometimes yearn With longing once
again to enter It'll
I can smell the lawns first moving, and the
rich earth freshly turned,
When the springs WarmfngePed touches
woke to life the garden beds,
Where the double row Of cIocuS ike a golden
pathway burned,
And the tulips IN the border waved their
stately crimson heads.
Where the south wall hired the swallows
wheeling up against the blue;
Summer beauty gained upon US ere we
knew the spring begun;
There the pale wisterEa clusters tender arms
of fragrance threw
Till the white magnolia lifted cups of silver
to the sun.
Year by year the blooming orchard lay like
snow beneath the moon,
Year by year the chafflnch nested where
the moSs-grown houghs divide,
And her brood upon the branches twittered
Though the dawns Of June
Till the glowing apples Feddena under
August's smile Of pride
Spring and ever-radiant summer and full
auts1mn hold it fast
My enchanted garden, whittier fancy leads
me back today
Never winter falls upon 1t, for the picture of
the past,
God be thanked, are happy pictures, and
their skies forever gay.
On,y when across hfds highway comes the
scent of country hriar,
Orc rafted honeysnc9fle, westward borne,
an cold with dew;
Then the Ioa 2ing for my garden fills me with
such stio'lg desire,
That my SOU is faint within me for the
sunshine that knew.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-21

Rather let us urge the need there is for the
education OF physicians in this speciality, and
call attention to the Importance of ''body-
building" in youth as preparation to a long
and useful life Special education in physical
development ought to be made part Of the
course of every medical college, whether the
student. proposes to adopt it or not as
special branch of his future practice. And a
few minutes of each day in every public
school oughtto be devoted to the training
best adapted to thedevelopmento Of r rticular
parts of the children's bodies
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-21
Anti.Choiera Rules.

Scientific American.
Pasteur has published nine anti-cholera
rules Of which the following is an abridg-
ment:
All table water must be boiled, and bottles
half filled with it, Before being drank, the
water should, 60 aerate it, be well shaken.
The pitchers or other vessels in which water
is generally stored in kitchens ought, before
they are each day replenished, to be
heated to $50 Centigrade, or a higher
temperature if possible. Wine should be also
heated to SIS degrees, and drank out of cups
which have been freshly plunged in scalding
water. All food should be thoroughly cooked.
UNDERGONE flesh and raw vegetables promote
cholera. The other vessels in which jam is
to be kept are to be prepared for its reception
by passage through furiously hot oven.
Bread is to be cut about twenty minutes be-
fore it is wanted, and toasted hard, or re-
baked quickly. Allsheeting and cloths ought
to be scalded and rapidly dried before being
used. Water for toilet purposes is only safe
when it has been first boiled and then di-
luted with THYME acid dissolved in acid, in
the proportion of two grammes per htre-
Hands and face should be frequently washed
with this mixture. Plates, knives, forks, etc,
are to be taken straight from the boiler on
oven to the dinner table.
The ninth rule is the least practicable.
Pasteur has drawn it up for the especial ben
eft of DOCTORS nurses and persons who reside
in houses or neighborhoods visited by the
epidemic. It prescribes the wearing of
mask made Of two thin sheets of brass, fitting
well into each other, but not soldered to-
gether A layer of phenolized wadding is to
be placed between the metal strata The
operation of breathing is to be performed
through mouth and nostrils covered. with
wadding.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-21
Worrying q Sick Baby.
Laws of Life.

IHWS OF LIIt.
Even though the patient is a babe or avery
young child-whom many people enormously
think cannot be injured by company, because
they do not know what IS said-never allow
conversation or unusual noises in its hearing.
The little nerves are often more sensitive than
in adult life, and every stir is a jar from
which they shrink. Many mother has un-
Willingly injured her child by permitting. a
garrulous neighbor to sit and chatter with
her. while she sought In vain to soothe the
meaning babe
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-21

oils and st. Paul a city that will dispute Chi
cago's claim, and an English syndicate is pre-
pairing to build a city at Sabine Pass that
may, in time, rival st. Louis in point of pop
ulation. Both st. Louis and Chicago are ad-
vancing, and both invite young men to take
Horace Greeley's advice and go west.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-21
A New Amusement.
Chicago Times.

OHICStS,O TILES.
The three-card monte men are trying a
new amusement during vacation. One Of
them chats with the crowd ON the piazza and
bets freely on the weight of the strangers
that use the hotel scales. At last his friend
appears encased in an invisible lead jacket
He looks lean, the crowd bets freely, and i:
surprised to find. itself out of pocket
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-21
Not That. Rnt This.

Chicago Tribune.
1t was on the piazza of the Grand Union,
Saratoga. "How beautifully that woman
sings" said one lady to another, who was in
gorgeous attire and blazing with diamonds
"Is she mezzo-sopranoz" mo, guess not.
| think she is a Swede,n replied the other.
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An Abbreviated Philanthropist.
Huntington Hawkeye. !


s'Malvina" wants to know how Mr.. Pea
body, the philanthropist, pronounced his
name. Well, 'fMalvinan here in America
was called Peabody, with the accent on
every syllable, broad and plain, but in En-
gland they averaged things up by simply
calling him ''Pbdy."
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-21
special physical Education.
New York Tribune.l

That athletics have been brought so nearly
to perfect science that any part Of the body
may be developed by appropriate exercise is
sogenerally accepted by physicians that it is
idle to argue in favor of the proposition.
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Refined Conversation where No Or
rs at E0sS for words.

Refined Conversation where No One
rs at loss for Words.
Boston Transcript
ENTER Thomas and Charles.J
Thomas and Charles-"Good evening, Ia
dies"
Kate-"How do, Charley, Tom? Where
have you been this ageE'
Josephine-"Sure enough! Henry Brown
was in just now. Did you meet him?'
Thomas-''Hen is great fellow, amt he?
Did he give you lecture on metempsychosis
OF dissertation ON frogs legs as remedy
for the unsettled condition of the labor mar
ket?"
Kate-s'oh, Tom! you'ret too hard on Henry.
You should't have said that before mamma,
But his conversation Is little tedious some
times"
Charles-"Hen's asmuffn
Josephine-@rWhat'st the newsF'
Thomas-''Afnt any. Charley who was
that girl you was so sweet on in thecar's after
noon?"
Charles-''Didn't mash her, thought
Josephine-''Oh, you naughty boyr'
Thonas-"C Charley gets the bulge on all Of
u.s."
Charles-sWhere did you get those cigar
cites, Tome Boss onesl"
Thonas-"Got 'em in New York. Can't
get q decent cigarette in Boston Have tried
'em all. By the way. Charley, you want to
try Snigglefrftz's beer Beats anything in
town. Drank six glasses there last night"
Charles-''Who beats this afternoong'
Thomas-"The Long Stockings-six to
nothing-regufar whitewash. Catchemup S
an awful rnuffer, and Slick pounded the Vel
lar Legs all over the field. But we must be
going, Charley. Good-by, Joe; good-by,
Kate
Charley-"G ood-by, girls"
Kate and Josephine-"Good-by Should
think you might stop longer, though" Exit
Thomas and Charlesl
Kate-''Toms nice fellow, ism he?'
Josephine-"Wh splendid conversation
alist."
Kate-"Oh, yes; Tom can talk on any sub
ject."
Josephine-"He isn't much like Henry"
Kate-''No, I hope not. No matter what
comes up, Toms never lost for word. He's
so entertaining. And then one learns so much
talking with him. u
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TIE old expression: 'tShall you attend SER
vicesg is obsolete, and in its stead is sutsti-
tubed Expect TO take in church todaYs'
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-21

Esthetic ministers now preach about ele
vators, instead of the old time "ge,deL
stairs" 4
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A FOREST FIRE.
a Passenger Train Detained by
Tornado OF Kissing and Roaring

Tornado Of Kissing and Roaring
Flames.
"Anchews'' in Chicago Inter Ocean.
Last night we had a glimpse of the inferno.
We had left Montana 10 cross Idaho, when,
at about 9 o'clock, the train came to a stop
without moments warning in the midst of
wilderness We FASTENED to the platform
and looked forward. There was spread out
panorama such as seldom gTeets the eye Of
man. The forest was one mass of seething
fame. The engine painted time or two,
and then, gathering courage, CepSnearer. A
few hundred yards, and it again came to
standStin 1t was impossible to pass
The heat made the paint on the cars crack.
The glass OF the windows grew feverish IN
der the heated breath from thefre. There
was, amid all the glare, theroar Of an ap-
preaching tornado, cracking and popping
like giants whip. This was accompanied
by Kissing likethe sound of frying salt, as
the green foliage of the living pines was con-
sumed with a white flash. This roaring and
cracking and swapping, terrible as it was,
only set off the grand accompaniment Of fall
ing trees. Every five seconds giant, with
the strength Of score of centuries, meas
ured his 200 feet across the fiery bed to which
he had been felled. He stood till scared to
the CORE and his hoary top was crowned with
fire. As he yielded the mountainsrolled back
the booming Of cannon from one height to
the other
We hold our breath and gaze at the sky,
overcast with leaden smoke, tinted here and
there with rosy hue. The crashing of the
falling giants is still for moment. The fire
breaks through the gloom of the forest in a
new place The flames go racing like de-
mons Up tall trees and culver in their tops
like ruddy lanterns for moment. The foil
age melts away with the first hot breath end
then the crashing and booming goes on again.
For the moment the rush and crackle is
drowned and the very craigs of the mountain
side seem to be rolling upon US from their
seats far above our heads
We ask the conductor when VIC can 60
on He says two hours. Long piles of wood
stored all about the track havecaught fire
and scores OF Cinnamon with hong poles in
their hands are hurried up from the nearest
station to save the track from ruin.
Two hours pass and still the Internal pan
demonium OF Kissing, roaring crackling,
booming, crashing, devastation goes on. The
conductor and engineer are afraid to go On.
They fear the heat viii fire our train. Should
it yield to the first spark it would melt away
like finder in q furnace.
For over four hours we watched the
scourge till itlrgw away from us and let US
go.
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must have spent more than million dollars
onthe place. He says thatit costs him $50, 00G
a year to maintain it In conspicuous, place
he has erected a fre-proof museum wherein
are portraits and statutes of distinguished
botansts, one wherein, no doubt, the city of
st. Louis will set up statute of Henry
Shaw-for he hiss bequeathed the garden to
the city.
st. Louis, it need hardly be said, takes a
deep interest in every measure to improve
the Mississippi river. In June last, when the
rise of the river was greater than it had been
for many years before, all the rich bottom
lands for hundred miles up and down the
left bank of the river were overlooked, and
crops worth millions of dollars were de-
stroyed. A million spent in strengthening
dykes and in addition TO their height would
have averted this disaster, not only this year,
but for many years to come. A government
pier far out in Lake Michigan protects
Chicago's shipping from the storms Of the
lake, and an extensive breakwater Is to be
built north of the pier St. Louis viii be in
congress in December next, demanding pro-
lection for the territory that is tributary
tOher
Chicago, being level, and only twenty-five
feet above the lake, will have sanitary diff
culties until she adopts the Thames embank-
nent plan of emptyins sewers. She has re-
eersed her rivers current, and it no longer
flows into Lake Michigan, but into the Gulf
Of Mexico StiIl it is offensive. St Louis,
standing on o series Of hills rising one ebove
another as the streets extend westward from
the river, may be severed perfectly.
St. Louis.ikes TO be termed the metropolis
of the southwest, Chicago the metropolis Of the
northwest but. there is growinS at Minneap-
National Republican., 1883-08-07
WEST WASHINGTON.

Condition of the Potomac river water,
Monday, Aug. 6-At Great Falls, So; at
receiving reservoir, north connection. 2S;
south connection, SO; at distributing reser-
voir, SO.
Four thousand seven hundred bushels of
wheat were sold yesterday at from Sl.l5 to
S1l5l per bushel.
The residents on Prospect avenue having
learned that the commissioners of the district
had their hands at work getting in the weed
crop in various sections of the town, are anx-
iously looking for their appearance in that
section, where the weeds have formed dense
jungles in the cutters, and, in some places, on
the sidewalks.
American Guard council, No. /, o. U. A. NJ,
Covenant lodge, No. l3, l. o. o. f., and Heber
tent, No. 10, 1. o. R., held interesting meet
ings last night.
At the one hundred and third meeting of
the Tenth Building association held at God
dard's hall last snight eleven shares were
retired at stock value of S13S.6S per share.
A large party of their friends assembled in
the parlors Of tho West Washington flats last
night to witness the marriage of Miss Ida
Mitchell and Mr.. George l.. Foulkes, which
interesting ceremony was performed at 8
o'clock by Rev. Mr.. Barker, of st, Pauis p
National Republican., 1883-08-07
Notes on the River.

The pleasure boat parties were out again in
great numbers yesterday evening, and pre-
sented a very lively scene on the river. One
unaccustomed to seeing them every evening,
on going to the vicinity of the boat houses
about o'clock on any fair evening" would
think that first class regatta was taking
place on the river. Never before have there
been so many ladies and gentlemen seen on
the river in pleasure boats as during this sea-
son, and, notwithstanding the fact that many
of the rowers are inexperienced, there has
been no accident to mar the pleasure of this
delightful way of spending an evening.
Many of the we'll known faces to be seen on
the Columbia boat house platform every even
ing were missing yesterday, the most Of them
having followed their crews to Newark.
The Potomacs sent out yesterday an eight
two fours Mckinney and Appleton in singles
and twelve pleasure boats the Columbias had
out two fours, Lake, johnson, and Kirby in
singles, the ten and six cared barges, and
eleven pleasure boats. The Analostans were
represented by four, the gig, and many
pleasure boats From johnson & Bakers
twenty pleasure boats were out.
National Republican., 1883-08-07
FRANK WARDS SCHEME

To Take Alderney MILK Across the Con-
tinent and Deliver 1t There in Good
Condition.
Mr.. Frank X. Ward, the wde-awake AL
derncy dairyman, always alive to the interests
of science and business, has hit upon a
scheme which, if successful, will add to his
fame and make his experiment national
institu tion.5 Hewill try 10 carry two hundred
gallons of pure sweet milk across the con-
tinent. The time selected for this experiment.
is the visit of the Knights Templar to San
Francisco. Mr.. Ward made wager with
Mr.. Crump the steward of the party, that he
could carry two hundred gallons of milk
across the country in good condition. He is
to receive 81 per gallon for every gallon
arriving in San Francisco in good condition.
The milk will be packed with salt aud ice in
one of Mr.. Wards patent rofrigcrators. The
train will leave tomorrow and tho milk put
in the hotel car and be used on the trip. Mr..
Ward is said to be giving odds on the success
of this venture, and the people of this city
wish him such.
National Republican., 1883-08-07
HUNDRED DoLLAR BOND.
Which may Belong to n Man now in tho
Worlkhouse.


Several weeks ago a cranky Israelite named
A. Goldenheim appeared at the Treasury de-
partment and alleged that he had lost 800
registered per cont bond, and demanded
immediate restitution from the government.
He was referred to the loan division, pre-
sided over by Mr. Fletcher, but received
little consolation from that gentleman, who
regarded Goldenhem's claim es the weak
minded vagary of crank. The latter, how
ever persisted in his demand, and visited the
loan office frequently, sometimes becoming
very abusive. Finally he was elected from
the building, placed under arrest, and sent to
the workhouse as q cranky "yag" 1t now
develops that there was method in Golden
helms madness, for the Treasury department
has received the identical bond claimed
by him from party in Chicago. The sigma
of GOldenheim appears OIL the bond, but the
treasury officials are 10th to believe that it is
genuine, and will hold the bond until the
Chicago party produces enough evidence of
the fact to satisfy the government 1t is the
current opinion that the bond came INTO the
possession of its present holders through
crooked methods.
The bond is now held by the treasury.w while
Goldenheim is held by the workhouse au-
thorities as a vagrant. Goldenheim is un-
doubtedly crank, as he is constantly speak
ing of being haunted by Jewish spirits. How
ever, the authorities are determined to right
him If injustice has been done.
National Republican., 1883-08-07
THE PosroFFICE ROBBERS.
Continuation OF the Cnse Before Judge
MIls-Thc Testimony Yesterday.


. The hearing of the young man Ellis for
robbing the Culpcpor Postoffice before Squire
Mills was resumed yesterday at 3 p. IN.
O'Neill. the man arrested Saturday night
was present, and entered plea of not guilty.
His hearing will take place when the Ellis
case has been completed. The testimony
yesterday went to prove the presence of the
prisoner at the scene of the robbery, and his
connection with O'Neill, together with tools
found in his possession.
William Duncan livesin Alexandria county,
and testified that on the twcnty-first of June
he was in the depot at Alexandria and saw
tho two men, O'Neill and Ellis; they were in
q stove car.
Thomas b. Shallcross a special agent of
the POstoihce department, testified that on
Friday last he saw the prisoner in the post
Office and had a conversation with him. Mr..
Norris, counsel for Ellis, objected to the
reading of long statement which Mr.. Shall
cross wanted to read. Witness then related
from memory the conversation in which
there was nothing but what has been al
ready published. Witness continued and
said that he went to house 3i3 Pennsylvania
avenue, room seven, where prisoner was
stopping, and found u satchel in which was q
revolver and cartridges and o powder horn,
which was similar to those used to pour
powder in safes when they were blown open.
VIM. Il. Henderson, postoifice inspector, saw
the prisoner in the postotiice. The prisoner
said that he lived at 81 Callowhill street.
Philadelphia Witness asked prisoner if he
had sent letter to n man named Gallagher
of Parkersburg. The prisoner said that he
did not. Witness went to house No. 3it
Pennsylvania avenue, and found articles re-
ferred to above. Witness produced postal
written by the prisoners to the sheriff.
Mr.. Norris objected to the admitting Of the
postal as evidence, and he and Mr.. Irwin had
quite spat, which ended in Mr.. Norris ask
ing witness if he had charged the prisoner
upon information.
Witness. CT ~ged him on information.
Mr.. Morris. l th>o move to quash the in
| dictmeut.
Judge Mills. The manner of the charge il
not material in the case, and shall overrulC
tho motion.
Samuel Staley is clerk at the Bankers an(
Merchants Telegraph company has said tina
the prisoner had sent dispatch to O'Neill a
Petersburg The dispatch was asked for by
Mr.. Irwin, and the hearing was adjourned
until to-day at p. M, when the dispatch viii
be produced.
PERSONS recovering from wasting diseases
National Republican., 1883-08-07
EAST WASHINGTON.

The very valuable horse and buggy be.
longing to DIR. A. c, Adams which were left
standing in front of Providence hospital yes
terday disappeared and are supposed to have
been stolen.
An open temperance meeting was held in
Temple grove, Anacostia last night. A large
number of persons attended. Messrs. John
A. Bayley, James NJ. Buchanan, and others
spoke,
Messrs. w. W. Golway, George Dietrich, IL,
+. Steele, and @. o, Brill leave tomorrow for
the Thousand Islands, Niagara Falls, Boston,
and number of other places. They will re.
turn in about three weeks.