Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-08
A Phenomenal Maine Girl.

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The antagonists of modern advanced educa.
ton, if there be any, should have heard lit
tie lecture that a gentleman gave on the
street Wednesday morning. The question
had arisen as to the tendency of modern ad-
vanced education to create a disgust for man.
ual labor. The gentleman told an anecdote.
A young lady who is very well known in
Lewistown and Auburn, and who has had a
liberal education in America, a course of
study in the German schools, and who has
since taught in some of the leading schools of
this state and others, came home TO her fathers
farm this summer. The hours hung rather
heavily. Father, your Office needs shingIing, n
she said one day. The next day the shingles
were on the spot, and the young lady pro-
posed to have some fun and combine it in a
legitimate way with solid work She built
the stagings geonletrically. ran the lines after
Euclid, and shingied the Office as neatly and
expedltiousyas the village professor OF shing-
ling himself could have done. She pulled
down the staging and erected it again over
the ell Of the house, and, in spite Of parental
injunction, shingled the ell and sloping shed
attached. She pracbiced music for pleasure
in the meantime, however, and read German
for pastiHe. Nothing" added the gentle
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alton thar notoriety"
Current JOURNALISTIC G4NaggeratioRs.
Detroit Free Press.]
The great American liars from Erie, Pa,
and Texas have evidently formed a partner
ship and established branch Offices in all the
chief towns and cities. They are turning out
copy fast. We have only time to note the
story of a sparrow which catches six ducks
every day, taking hold of them with it's bill,
shaking them as dog does a rat, and then
throwing them over its head: of a
young man in Alabama, who for
several years being destitute of beard had
hard knot in his neck cut open
and found beard all rolled I'D
and nicely packed away in this wen; of a
Bridgeport Comm 'sprofessorn who has in
vented a brass belt with a nipple from which
ne noiseiessly projects a pellet, and which, in
the presence of a witness, killed dog in if
teen minutes without the animals knowing
it was hit, and finally of a St Louis man,
who, by means Of two plates OF glass one
thirty-sixth of an inch apart and filed in
with glycerine, has made a telescope with
which he is able to see q carmine sea, strange
bat-lke birds, and insect men with rudimen-
tary arms and wings or antenna, who were
fishing III the sea
He was telling the story in the billiard
room OF a Denver hotel. Said ne.
There were three Of Us, you see, and Ne
vada was 3 cold climate for Us. We were
dead-broke, ha-lf-starved, and clear discour-
aged, when along came a New Yorker. He
wouldn't play cards, wouldn't be robbed, and
we couldn't stick him with forged land
patents or bogus pre-emptions- One day we
trailed cut and dug hole into hiIl and
sailed it a bit. and rushed back and offered
the Kew Yorker the big discovery Tor S3.010
cash down
s'And be bitF
''Took right hold like a pair of pincers.
Why, he never even stopped to beat US down.
We got cool thousand apiece and made for
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Purity cool that was"
.lEeH, dunno If there was anything
cool in that transaction it was the way that
New Yorker hunted up pard, set miners to
work, bought machinery, and took over $3.50,
| O00 cut of that ar hole inside Of eight months
Maybe we've got over feeling fat, but guess
| ROLF