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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-08-05

pected of the generality, any more than
it would nowadays, that everybody
should be shoemaker or lawyer.
Kings did not even know how to sign
their names, so that when they wanted
to subscribe to written contract, law
or treaty, which some clerk had drawn
up for them, they would smear their
right hand with ink and slap it down
upon the parchment saying, "Witness
my hand" At later date some genius
devised the substitute of the seal, which
was impressed instead of the hand.
Every gentleman had seal with Pc
culiar device thereon. Hence the sacra-
mental words now in use, s'Witness my
hand and seal" affixed to modern deeds,
serve at least the purpose of reminding
us of the ignorance of the middle ages.
Popular Science Monthly.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-08-05
is THERE WATER ON THE MoONg

Is THERE WATER ON THE MOONa
MIR. Helmuth Dueberg presents new
theory of the moon, and argues the
possibility of its being inhabited on the
farther side. It is well known that the
moon always presents the same face to
the earth. Because this side of the
moon is an airless and waterless desert,
we are not justified, MIR. Dueberg thinks,
in assuming that the other side is like it.
Since the moon does not revolve so as to
change the side presented to the earth,
and since the attraction of the earth for
the moon is very great, the heavier side,
if there is any, must be turned this way.
Surprising the moon to possess air and
water, these lighter and more fluent ele-
ments of her composition wouldof neces-
sity lay at the farther side. In the alb
sence of any centrifugal force due to
rotation on her own axis, the only CEN
trifugal force acting upon the moon
must be that resulting from the moons
motion round the earth. This would
tend still more to throw the moons air
and water to the sou" side with re-
spect to the earth. For a practical
illustration Of this view, Mr.. Dueberg
suggested ball swinging in circle by
means of cord. The ball, like the
moon, will always turn the same side to
the center OF evolution and if it be in
my liquid, the liquid will be rapidly
accumulated on the opposite or outer
'ide. Hence. the possibility of water,
.ir and life on the moon, around the
,hores of a central lunar sea. on the
ide always turned away from us.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-08-05
THE OYSTE lJ;4N ON DANIEL WEB
STER.

Said Uncle Daniel Clark of Ledyard,
as he held in each hand Norwich river
oyster and contemplated them with evil
dent respect: Il recollect when Dan
lei Webster was at Stonington Pint.
He couldn't git away, and he wanted
some Pequonnick oysters, and SO he
sent for me. Somehow or other he
had heered of me. I went where he
was. Daniel, how do you do p said he.
Pretty well, Daniel said I, and how
are you?' Well, I went to Pequonnick
and got two bushel of old Mr.. Mamiere
and paid him 81 fur 'em. Daniel Web
ster he gin me roll of bills; there was
eighteen on 'em. If that hain't enough,
he roared jest like a speaking trumpet,
let me know and I'll double it. If I
ever felt as if I was Daniel in the lions
don it was when I was with Daniel
Webster. He roared jest like lion,
and he looked a good deal more like
one than the critters have seen in the
caravan
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-08-05

NAPOLEON l. was noted for the ease
with which he went to sleep. For weeks
1t time two hours sleep out of the
twenty four was sufficient for him. He
is reported to have said l.: Different
matters are arranged in my head as in
drawers. 1 open one drawer and close
another as wish. III desire repose
shut up all the drawers and sleep.
have ways slept when I wanted rest,
almost ut WILL"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-08-05
WISE IL. PAR HENTIER.

NJ. Parmentier, in 1888, introduced
potatoes into France in novel man
ner. Having printed considerable
breadth of potatoes at Montreuil, near
Paris, he gained an audience of the IN
fortunate Louis XVI, in the course of
which he inspired his Majesty with ideas
of the value of the potato.
"But how are we to make people eat
what they are prejudiced against?" in
CURED the King.
@Sire, if your Majesty will graciously
afford me little aid, that prejudice
shall be removed" replied Parmentier.
"To overcome prejudice is difficult
but how can aid you, NJ. Parmentier ?"
eff your Majesty graciously order
that soldier shall mount guard in my
potato-feld at Montreuil, potatoes shall
be all the fashion in less than six
months"
The King laughed, and granted Par
mentier's request. Thenceforward a
military guard might be seen prone
nading with measured steps the natural
lists potato-feld. How precious must
that blue-fowered plant be. thought
the lookers-on. No more fear of Iep-
rosy--no more dread of poisoning.
The highest people in France were proud
tO cat nOtatOas
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-08-05

AN exchange says: "Some must
have quarter of a column to express a
well-defned idea, when writing for a
newspaper but it is astonishing how
concise they can make an advertisement
that costs 80 cents per line" Yes, some
like to spread when it don't cost cent.
That class of men are SO thin that they
don't amount to much in the world
Cambridge Tribune.
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GOLDEN THOUGHTS.

Speak gently it is better far
To rule by love than fear;
Speak gentlyl let no harsh word mar
The good we might do here.
Speak gentlyi tbs little thing
Dropped in the hearts deep well:
The good, the joy which It may bring.
Eternity shall tell.
Kind hearts are the gardens;
Kind thoughts are the roots;
Kind words are the blossoms;
Kind deeds are the fruits.
The night has Thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light Of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
The mind has Thousand eyes,
And the heart but one:
~, Yet the light of the whole life dies
When love is done.
IF NJ Bourdiuor-
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"PRAPS."

A word has troubled all my youth,
And shattered all my dreams of truth
'Tis simply that small word, uncouth,
2'raps."
When but a child, when would pray
Some Others help to ease my way,
They'd laugh, and for an answer say.
"P'raps."
Then when / had become boy
And wished for money: full of joy
I'd run to father-Don't annoy,
"P'raps."
Now. when man, thought TO wed;
Full straightway to my love I sped
And asked her, but she frowned and said
"P'raps."
Will life's sun ever on me shine?
Will joys that others have be mine?
VIII that love come for which pine?
"P'raps."
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-08-05
SHE WAS TIPSY.

A doctor who had one day allowed
himself to drink too much was sent for
to see fashionable lady who was ailing.
He sat down by the bedside, took out
his watch, and began to count her pulse
as we'll as his obfusticated condition
would permit. He counted " One, two,
three" then he got confused and began
again: "One, two, three, four" Still
confused, he began again : "One, two. .
No. he could not do it. Thoroughly
ashamed OF himself, he shut up his
watch, muttering: "Tipsy, declare
tipsyl" Staggering to his feet, he told
the lady to keep her bed and take some
hot lemonade to throw her into a per-
spiration, and he would see her next
day. In the morning he received the
following note from the lady, marked
"private :"
DEAR DooToR You we're right. l dare not
deny it. But 1 am thoroughly ashamed of my
self and will be more careful in the future,
Please accept the inclosed fee for your visit e
s1O note), and, doctor, entreat of you,
breathe not word about the state in which you
found me-
. The lady, in fact, had been drinking
too much, and, catching the doctors
murmured words, thought they referred
to her. He was too far gone to see what
was the matter with his patient, and she
too far to observe that the doctor was
in the same condition.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-08-05

THE Queen of Italy is described as
having an interesting but sad and
pathetic expression of countenance. She
has no majesty of presence, her walk Is
ungraceful, but her manners are affable
and gracious, and she puts the shyest
strangers instantly at ease.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-08-05

A New HAMPSHIRE photographer has
grouped representatives of five genera
tions on one card. Mrs. Weston, Of
Peterboro, aged 104, and her son, Sc:
her granddaughter, SO; her great-grand.
daughter, 80, and her great-great- grand
son. z.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-08-05
DISTRIB UTTON OF FORCE AND THE
USE SHOWMEN MAKE OF 1T.

1t is not generally known that force is
never instantaneously communicated,
and that a succession of i'm
pulses are required to communicate
motion. In like manner, no force can
be instantaneously arrested, and grad
ual resistance to motion is necessary to
make it disappear. Examples showing
the gradual nature of the retardation of
force are numerous. 1t is by the gradual
or continued resistance of the air that
the motion of cannon-ball is destroyed.
Now if, instead of this gradual resist
ance, any hard substance, as block of
granite, were opposed to the progress of
the ball, it would be at once broken
asunder. We see, then, the reason that
a hard substance of moderate thickness
does not offer so effectual resistance to
a body moving very rapidly as some sub
stance of more yielding kind and of
greater bulk. For example, a bale of
cotton will arrest ball which would pass
through plank, for the cotton, yielding
easily. permits the force of the ball to
be felt and resisted by larger bulk,
while the wood, not yielding, opposes
but small portion of its whole bulk to
the force Of the ball, and, therefore, does
not arrest it; in other words, the mo-
mentum of the ball is communicated to
much larger quantity of matter In the
cotton than in the wood. These prin-
ciples afford a ready explanation Of a
feat which is sometimes performed. A
man lies upon his back, and, having an
anvil carefully placed upon his chest, al
lows some one to strike q heavy blow
with hammer upon the anvil, and no
injury is received. Why? Because the
momentum, or force, of the hammer is
difused throughout the bulk of the
anvil, and then again throughout the
bulk of the yielding chest. The man
takes good care to have his lungs we'll
filed with air at the moment of the
blow, for this increases the bulk and
elasticity of the chest, and thus pro-
notes the diffusion of the momentum.
If the blow of the hammer were received
directly upon the chest, terrible injury
would be done, for the force would be
spent upon one small spot alone. The
principles above elucidated are applied
by men instinctively in their common
labors and efforts. Watch a man catch
ing brick that are tossed to him. As he
receives the bricks In his hands he lets
his hands and the bricks move together
a little way, so that he may gradually
arrest the motion of the bricks. To do 1t
suddenly would give him painful les
son on momentum. So, when a man
jumps from height he does not come
to the ground in straight position.
This would cause sudden and there
fore painful arrest Of the motion of the
whole body. To avoid this he comes to
his feet with all the great joints of his
body bent, SO that the different portions
approach the ground successfully, his
head having its motion arrested last.
At New Orleans during the war of
1912 the effect of the balls from the
English guns was effectually neutralized
by bales of cotton, we're even stone
would have been unavailable.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-08-05

Vi dlsUllleries in the
A- is 5,205, and the produc-
10 IN 1881 was III, 728, $50.
engaged in grain distilla-
l24O; fruit distilleries, 1858.
The product of the fruit distilleries,
however, was only 1,7O2, 900 gallons.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-08-05

IT has been ascertained that where
eggs are sold by the pound they vary
in weight from one to four ounces.
The average weight of dozen eggs in
twenty three and half ounces.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-08-05

In 1877 there were no telephones In
this country; now there are over
100000.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-08-05

RA1s1N curing promises soon to be-
come leading industry in Southern
California.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-08-05
TAKING DOWN A SNOWY oUSs.

A man slipped into one of the saloons
on Main street and invited some friends
he had in tow to drink. The man had
evidently just come out of the big end
of the horn in mining speculation, and
his sudden accumulation of wealth was
shown in his big watch chain, immense
diamond pin and generally" loud air.
When he came to pay for the drinks he
pulled out handful of gold and silver,
amounting to about $50, and laid it on
the counter. remarking:
Chow much is this ?"
"Goin' to stop here long ?" asked the
barkeeper.
Few days, said the man.
The bar-keeper gathered the money
up, counted it carefully and showed it
all back, saying, quietly:
"Better keep it, stranger, if that's all
Tou've got. You'll need it right along.
I haven't the heart to take money from
man who's so near broke"
The crowd laughed, and the snob,
pocketing his handful of money, with
drew with a melancholy and detected
air.-ColOrddo NeaOS.
HOW Il WOMAN KEEPS ACCOUNTS
1t is a touching sight to see a woman
begin to make up her expenses, having
firmly resolved to put down every cent
she spends, so as to find out how tc
economic and where all the money
goes. Procuring a small book, she
makes due entry, and, on the Monday
after the first Saturday in which he1
husband brings home his pay, she care.
fully tears the margin off newspaper
and, with blunt pencil, strikes trial
balance something in this way:
John brought me home $3.50, and
$1.53 [ had is $40. SO, and $1.00 I lent
Mrs. Dixon is $50.93-but hold on,
ought not to enter that, because when
she returns it'll go down. That was
1888, and what have done with that
Then she puts down the figures, leav.
ing out the items to save time-a proc.
ess which enables her to leave out most
OF the items to where round sum is
involved, on the supposition that they
have already been put down. As thus:
Six dollars and fourteen cents fol-
meat, and 10 cents for celery, and 1C
cents on the street cars, and bad 5.
cent pieceI got In exchange, and 1871
L paid the milkman-who owes me Is
cents-that's So, and Is cents at church.
and the groceries were either
$3.50 or $3.50, and don't remember
which they were, but guess it must
must have been $3.50, for the grocer
said that if I would give him dime he
would give me half dollar, which
would make even change, and I couldn't
because the smallest had was q quar-
ter-and $2.75 for mending Katief
shoes, which is the last money that
shoemaker ever gets from me, and 10
cents for celery-no, I put that down.
Finally she sums up her trial balance
sheet, and finds that it foots up $64. %,
which is about SIS more than she had
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-11-13
The Duke and the Dude.
Family Herald


The following story Is told of an English
nobleman, recently deceased The duke was
once in church when a collection was an
bounced for some charitable object. The
plate began to go round, and the duke care
fully put his hand into his pocket and took
out form, which he laid on the pew before
him, ready to be transferred to the plate
Beside him sat little snob, who, noticing
this action, initiated it by ostentatiously lay
Ing sovereign alongside the ducal fiorin.
This was too much for his grace, who dipped
his hand into his pocket again and pulled out
another form, which he laid by the side Of
the first. The little snob followed suit by
laying another sovereign beside the first. His
grace quietly added a third form, which was
capped by third sovereign on the part of
the little snob. Out came fourth form to
swell the dukes donation, and then the little
snob triumphantly laid three sovereigns at
once upon the board. The duke, not TO be
beaten, produced three forms. Just at this
moment the plate arrived The little snob
took up his handful of sovereigns, ostenta-
dously ratified them into the plate, and then
turned defantly toward his rival as if he
would say, II think that takes the shine out
of you" Fancy his chagrin when the duke,
with grim smile, put one form into the
plate and quietly swept the remaining six
back into his pocket.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-11-13
THE SKULLS.
What Young America is Coming to, Jun.
der the Influence of DECEASED and Per.
nloious Literature.

CLEVELAND, O., Nov. 12.-Birdie Gay.
lord, aged IA, is missing from the aristo.
cratic home OF her parents In this city. She
disappeared week ago, her departure be.
Ing the result of reading dime novels A
month ago Birdie organized secret society
called the 'Slver SKULLS" composed Of
boys from eleven to fifteen years old, Each
boy before admittance to membership had
to take the following oath:
Cursed he friendship, cursed be
fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers; may
the offspring Of ourselves canker, blister
and decay on Its dying mothers breast ;
may the blood OF each breed pestiferous
plaques; may the hair OF each fall from bis
head; the teeth crumble In his Jaws; the
brains rot In his skull; the eyes canker and
fall from their sockets and the fingers grow
palsled, II we ever betray the secrets Of the
Skulls. swear death to our enemies, life
to the Skulls"
Jason Caskey, the boy who in some way
incurred the wrath Of the "siIver skulls"
short time ago received warning written
In red ink siguifying blood. A glaring
skull and cross.bOnes decorated the paper,
and below was bloody hand with the
word "death" written on It. The docu.
ment read: "Jason Caskey, one month
from TO .night, II you don't JOIN us, you
will receive your death warrant, aud two
days from then your death. BY order Of
the 'skulls.'"
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-11-13
POrkOpOlts, the Musical City,

CINCINNATI. Nov. 12.-Your CORES
pendent has just had an interview with Col.
Nichols, President of the College OF Music.
In reply to the questions: "How about that
perpetual contract Mapleson claims to have
with the College Of Music to give everyone
Of its opera festivals adj infntumH" the
Col. smiling, said;
"Why, that is absurd on the very face of
it. In the first place, we consulted our at
torneys when we employed Mapleson, and
we knew precisely what we were doing"
''But Mapleson talks as il he had you
bound by good, solid contrsct3n
'He must think so, or he wouldn't talk
as he does, but he is sadly mistaken"
"But he talks as II he had perpetual
lease on you to employ his company when
ever you 60 to an opera festival"
'That Is a delusion that will prove costly
to him II he spends any money on it. You
know the courts never sustain one. sided
or ironclad contract. But we had no such
contract with him, and II we had II would
be worthless to him. The courts In Ohio
always rule against one-sided contracts. I
have drawn up papers In employing In.
structors in the College Of Music so strong
that our attorneys rejected them as worth.
less because one.sided. The contract Ma.
pleson claims to have is far more one sided
than those Of mine which our attorneys de-
cided too strong to be vslid.o
AS TO Mapleson's and Abbey's COM
panies this year, don't you think both Of
them have better talent and are better Is q
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-11-13

ST. LOUIS, Nov. l2.-Gen W. T.
Sherman made his entry into St. Louis
shortly after O'Clock this morning. He
came very quietly and without any Of the
adiuncts that are supposed to welcome
hero. The Vandalia train ran In from the
East on time, and after 1t had pulled up,
the tall form Of the bluff old general step
ped down on the platform. In minute he
was followed by two ladies, who were
travelling with him on the train. The three
went II ,arriI ge, which was In waiting,
and were driven rapidly away. The ladies
we're Mrs. L. p. Tansey and lady friend,
who are neighbors OF Gen. Sherman
on Garrison avenue. The General
alighted at his house, No. 9lS Garrison
avenue, and was soon in he bosom Of
his family. A Post-Dispatch reporter call
ed at the residence, and was cordially re-
ceived. Tt ieneralhad rather strong
and a decidedly black cigar In bis mouth.
He had evidently jus. Au'aed his break
fast, and enjoyed it, too. He was looking
much the same as when he visited the city
at the meeting of the Army Of the Tennes-
see. He is evidently in the best OF health
| and looks as young and talks as sprightly As
| he did ten years ago.
PPM home at last, - he said, in way
that showed that he was not sorry about bis
retirement.
you seem to be glad of it''
IL am. | am feeling well. My health is
god. am going to have some rest. /
! TOOK forward to it with considerable pleas
ure."
Now, General, I would like to. ask
you -"
II dom. want to be interviewed" he
said. I've nothing to say, really moth
Ing. am at home now, and am going to
stay"
But ----'
Now don't; / am inst at home. Real
w. there is nothing l know so much about
that want to discuss it,
| The old veteran was polite, but firm. He
would not talk at all. After some further
conversation, the reporter took his leave.
| Gen. Sherman came out to the door, and
as he stood there he looked around and
said:
"This is Il nice, pleasant place. have
had it fitted up myself. l think 1t will be
very comfortable. Good day"
| To-NIGHT's RECEPTION.
Tonight at : clock the members OF the
various posts OF the Grand Army Of the
Republic will assemble at Turner hall, COR
ner OF Beaumont sld Morgan streets, and
forming line, march in body to General
sherman's residence, No. 9l8 Garrison
avenue, aud there tender him serensde.
Probably about SIX hundred men will
| be in the line. After an sppro-
pirate air by the arsenal band, the Gen
eral will be called for and Ex-Governor
| Thos. c. Fletcher on behalf of the G.. A.
r. will deliver a brief address OF welcome,
to which, of course, the general will re-
spond. There will then be more music, a
general hsndshaking, three hearty cheers
| OF welcome by the old comrades, and the
crowd will disperse. After the screnade
Gen. Sherman will 20 the the olympic
| Theatre, in company with Gen. Noble and
one or two members OF his family, to as
sist in the welcome to be given John McCul-
lough,
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-11-13
Can't Amuse HIMSELF
(Chicago Tribune.1

lCuCdSO Tribune.
The disadvantages Of riches were never
more plainly and more plaintively presented
than by Mr.. John W. Mackey, the "bonanza
king" A hard-working man of simple
habits, his favorite-indeed, his only-amuse-
ment had been a couple Of hours card.play.
ing nightly, the game as matter Of course
being draw-poker When his uncousted
millions poured in upon him the rich man
was heard to lament the Inconvenience of
their possession The only amusement
had, he said sadly, twas my game of draw,
and the interest in that is gone, for don't
care now for what win and don't feel what
LOSE