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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-11
The yyeIland Canal.
T"Gath" in New York Tribun

t"Gath" in New York Tribune1
Few Americans have any idea about the
Welland canal l looked at this new achieve
ment of the Canadians last week; the Great
Western railroad of Canada runs beneath
the canal by tunnel the old Welland canal,
which is still used, lies some two or three
miles to the west of the present one The
old canal was towpath concern and did not
admit "a steani-tug coincident with the vessel
The new canal has fourteen feet of water
when there is high water, but in summer
drouth it is said to be less than fourteen feet
1t is a magnificently constructed work, and
excites surprise that the Americans should
have permitted the Canadians to anticipate
them.
Yet it will be observed that the facilities
for this canal through Canada are much bet
ter than through the United States The
axis of the two lakes, Erie and Ontario,
passes through Canada; the Niagara river
issues from the extreme eastern end of Lake
Erie, while Lake Ontario overlaps Lake Erie
considerably in Canada. 1t is rather start
ling to see moving through the apparently
solid ground, for the country is very high
where the new Welland canal is built, tall
massive ocean steamers, full-rigged ships,
etc, sometimes as continuous as q caravan
across the desert. They go along silently,
not a sound or whistle escaping them, and
the visitor sometimes thinks his mind is de-
ceived and that the landscape is haunted
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-11

rs gong to be there, too Butler
was very hostile to Seward, and thought he
could hardly be a human being Said I:
Come along; you are not all afraid of that
little fellow. He is coming all by himself
They came, and it was wonderful to see how
that little fellow Seward managed that table.
never saw his equal at a dinner table He
could tell tales that would make everybody
howl with laughter, and a good many of them
were about himself He would reflect on
himself. In point of fact, Seward was
wonderful man, both as a table companion
and as student. He and l remained friendly
until the great emeute."
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-11
Something Was Done.
WALL Street NewSl

w ali SCreeJ news
IN the last days of the war, citizen of In
diana made his way to Boston and had an in
terview with a former acquaintance. who
had left his Hoosier home for the 'Hubn and
got rich.
Daniel, the war is coming to a close and ]
haven't made dollar out of it.n
rs that possible. Didn't you have any
scrub hogs OF lean cattle to sells"
Mo-
''No baled hay for the armyg"
''Not pound"
Cant you get contract for supplying the
army with something or Others"
81 don't think so.
'Got farm, haven't your
Eyes, but it's almost all lake,
Lake! Hurrah! you're savedl Never
mind an army contrac Come with me to a
map publisher, and before twenty-four hours
have passed we shall have organized the
Great Inland Navigation company elected
you as president, and 1 will have the stock
on the markell All we want is a map of the
lake and a cut of a steamboat going fourteen
miles an hour! Sayed-Saved-wher nv
hatn
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-11
THE TRYsr.
fCornhin Maeazine.l>


Farewell, beloved! we will not weep; tits but
a little while:
When the snow is gone I shall return with
springs returning SMILE
Where sunlight falls with shade and rain
from hurrying clouds that sweep
With nought betwixt me and the sky, there
lay me down to sleep.
The place is known to you and me, nor needs
it more should show.
So raise no stone at head or feet, but let the
wild flowers blow.
And then some little part of me will creep up
through the mold,
The brightness of my hair will CLEAN from
kingcups' hearts of gold.
The blue that's faded from my eyes will
meet your eyes again
When little speedwells on my grave smile
softly after rain.
When the warm blood is frozen at my heart
Kneel down above the dust and kiss the
daisy's coral tips.
And when from out the sunset little breeze
comes by,
And flush of a deeper color steals across the
upper sky;
When the beech leaves touch and tremble,
whisper SOFT and then are still,
And bird hid in the thiczet sings out sud-
den, sweet and shrill,
When faint voices of the evening nlurnur
peace across the land,
And silver mists creep up and fold the woods
On either hand
Or in the early morning when the world is
yet asleep
And the dew lies white in all the shade where
the grass is green and deep,
You'll find me there, love, waiting you; and
you may smile and say,
Il met my darling all alone at our old tryst
to-day;
look'd into her eyes so blue, strozed her
hair of gold,
We kiss'd each other on the lips as in the
days of old"
1t was her voice so low, so clear. that in
mine ears did sound,
Beloved, there's no such thing as death;
It's life that have found;
The life that thrills in leaf and flower and
fills the woods with song,
That throbs in all the cleaning stars when
winter nights are long
The life that passes with the winds from ut
most shore to shore,
Embracing all the mighty world, Is mine
forever more"
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Row the Facial Expression is
Altered.
TChicago Herald.

"Placidity of expression" says an eminent
physician, twill never be mistaken for va
cancy, and the woman who so governs her
self has the satisfaction of knowing that her
face will rarely betray her, for on calm
face passing enotionSdO not rest long enough
to mirror themselves" The value of this
composure and non-c0mmittal feature is too
well known to business and professional men
to need comment, for who ever saw sue
cessful doctor, lawyer, or merchant with
teil-tale face. And if the emotions are not to
mold the face, women must stop scowling,
frowning, pOuting, winking, twisting the
mouth and nose sucking the tongue or
thrusting it into the cheeks or out over the
lips in wedge shape, straiuing the eyes
wide open at surprising news, shut
ting them with rapidity, rolling and
throwing them for stage effect, pursuing the
mouth, biting the lips, wagging the head or
carrying it a la canary, grimacing, grinning,
squirting, signing, humming, giggling, and
continuously smiling, for not only are such
practices ruinous to pleasant facial express
sion, but must be attributed to bad breeding,
and are so dsagreeable that it seems needless
to admonish parents and teachers for permit
ing such bad habits to be acquired-or big
girls, who certainly should have better taste.
Among the lower classes, pronounced types
Of beauty are rarely met with, as vicious
tendencies, exposure to want and debauch-
cry, and the necessity for hard labor cause
their features to lose much of that grace and
refinement which other surroundings might
develop. Another reason for cultivating the
expression and pursuing an upright, lofty
ideal is seen in the contrast between men and
women. The latter cannot with impunity
nurture unwomanly thoughts, anger, and the
baser passions, or succImb to care, grief, mis-
fortune or recllessness, for, being possessed
of quicker and more delicate sentiments than
men, with finer and less accentuated features,
greater susceptibility of physiognomy and
deicacy Of muscle, the traces on the feminine
face are more marked, more durable, and al
most ineradiclble. Love is also a wondrous
artist in painting beauty on the feminine
counteuance, and unless the music OF the ten
der passion is played upon her heart, there
must be one chord missing from her life But
all cannot be wooed; there are not men
enough to go around; there must still be some
unplucked roses on the bush, and, though all
things else fail, woman is still the sculptor of
her own statue.
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The Mistake of q Genius
u,ady wilde in london Queen. !

Even love marriages have no sure founda-
ton in the intellectual temperament. To
see, love and wed in a moment Is ecstatic:
but to live and not love for the whole after
term Of human existence, is fearful reality
too often experienced, in ali its dull depres-
sion, when unrelated souls are bound to-
gether by the irrefregable marriage chain.
a young writer of promise and rising fame
sees pretty shop-girl, a jewelers. daughter,
and Is fascinated az once. She was 50 gem
tie and insinuating, 50 charming,
with her little curled head and her little
white hands, daintily lingering the
glittering trinlzets, and her placid SMILE that
always beams welcome. He fancies that
under her rule tpe disorder Of his bachelor
home VIII be changed TO a paradise Of COM
fort, and they are married. But the srIn-
shine came not; only q gray, watery atmos-
phere Of fog seemed to elvelop his life
When his clever friends came Is usual, and
thought flashed as at Platonic symposium,
the wife sat by and smiled her placid smile.
and uttered the small platitudes OF mediocre
natures the set colloguial phrases of com
merce, with the most exasperating uncon-
seriousness that she was bore and a weari
ness TO than all On the contrary, she fan
cied she was quite an addition to the circle
nice, lady-Eke and well bred
Then the horror Of a dreadful truth fell
upon the husbands heart he became con
scions that he would have TO sit opposite 70
this woman, and look at her vapid smile. ard
listen to her fimsy talk, for perhaps half
century. There was no help for him. Nc
release. Sometimes the tuTnuIt Of MS feel
ngz ragged in open war; and thsn she wept
and i2mented that she h1d not married one
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-11
His Ewes Set Back.
[Linne-Kiln Club1

The chairman of the committee on the sick
reported that Brother Wholesale Baker, a
local member, was confined to his house with
sickness, and had asked for relief The
committee had paid him a visit of inspection
and had found his feet cold, his eyes set back
and hiSmind wandering. As near as they could
learn from his wife he had been taken with a
chill while buying q squash for seven cents at
u grocery.
''De committee needn't bodder ober de casa
any longer replied the president Il hap
pened to be up on Gratiot avenue de odder
day when Brudder Baker bet half a dollar
dat he could eat thirty hard-biled aigs in
eleven minits. doan' know wheeler he lost
or won, but his eyes kin stay sot an his mind
kin wander all ober de kentry fur all de aid
lie will receive from US
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Two Kinds OF Girls. and the Lesson
Therefr0m.
boston Courier.1

"What we need, said gentleman in pri-
vate conversation, ''is concentration of en-
srgy, and application of it in the right direc-
ton" The person who spoke is a manufac-
turer Of art furniture, and it was by mere
accident that he took an illustration the
example Of his forewoman in the embroidery
room. ''She is a stout German American
girl, with heavy face and duInpy figure.
She always attends to business. l have
known her ever since she was a young girl
doing embroidery work for an uptown firm
We used to send her extra pieces to do, and
she finally came to Us altogether, because we
paid her better. She has been in demand,
personally sought after by employers ever
since she began, for she spends her whole
strength in her work. Her dress is extremely
plain, and she does not care for gayeties. She
has nc rIinous diversion OF interest to pre-
vent her from attending to the matters OF
first Importance
son the other hand" he continued, "ve
have off and on, in our embroidery room, a
pretty girl who will never amount to any
thing. Her ideas Of life are unisshapen. She
is clever enough embroideress, but she
works half-heartedly, and only when sho
feels inclined. She won't undertake this
piece and she says she can't do that She is
always asking fayocs and doing little irregu-
larities that are harmless enough but dis
t51rbing to business Her one ambition is
dress. She really is, in her way, lady
ike person. She is neat and clothes herself
IN good taste, with no display, but in
a style far above her condition in life.
Not a lady does she see in the street but
she looks at her dress and manners, and even
listens to her speech, to see what she can PICK
up to improve herself. The result Is, tie
poor girl has cultivated sensibilitie5 which
make it unlikely that she viii ever be con.
tented with any home that might be offered
her. and she has no strong minded aspira-
tons to independent prosperity. By devot-
ing her energy to uuproductiye channels the
zi=i has made herself useless and unhappy.
She IS not thinking of how her work appears,
bat Of how she herself appears, and tries ~
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An Eye for widows.
TChicago News


Officer Button, at the Union depot, picked
up the other day memorandum book, evil
IDENTIFY lost by some one attending the state
fair. All the entries are made in q business
like manner, and some OF them are readable.
The first entry is:
''Shall take SIC with me to the state fair.
Second-clasS hotel good enough for me. Be
ware of pickpockets- Keep your eyes open
for good looking widow. View the animals,
and don't forget to take two clean handker-
chiefs along"
The second entry reads:
Fair up to the average. Saw widow in
the car going up. Didn't seem to like my
style. Somebody has stuck me with bogus
half-dollar. Saw another widow on the
grounds. Rather too stout Viewed the
animals and was kicked by steer.N
Third entry-''Good attendance. Slept on
the floor Jam on the street cars Passed
the bogus money off on bootblack- Saw a
widow at the hotel. Most too lean. Went to
the theatre last night Can't remember the
play. Saw several widows, but no chance to
make an impression
Fourth entry-"Big crowd on the grounds
Beat my way in. Saw a widow ON the fence
Most too boisterous for my locality Saw
Viewed the machinery and was nit on the ear
by loafer. Saw widow viewing the head
less rooster. Mouth most too large for my
part OF the state. Slept il a barn for moth
ing"
Fifth entry-''Saw widow in the post
Office. Blind in one eye. No good. Big jam.
Tried to beat my way in, but couldn't. Saw
horSe-race. Saw widow on the grand
stand Bowed TO her Cold cut Viewed the
big OK Saw q widow in Honey hall. Raised
my hat Got left, Feel blue"
As that was the last entry it would seem
as Il he gave up in disgust and started for
home. a person supposed to be him saw
widow" at the depot Friday afternoon, and
became 50 obnoxious that she hit him over
the head with an umbrella, and two or
three men reached for him with cowhide
h-anrS
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or the other of the young shopmen who were
dying about her, and were now SO well off.
But after time matters grew worse. She
began to assume airs as the wife of an au-
thor. to give her opinion, and interrupt the
conversation with her affected gush Of
praise. The husband could see the sup
pressed laughter on the lips of the Platoon
lists, and their contempt for the little fool he
had made his wife. This finished his agony;
he gave up his friends; he gave up writing;
fell into a state of morbid melancholy, and
finally died leaving all his precious manu-
scripts confused and incomplete. The widow
crammed them all into the fire, smiled as
before, and eventually married one, or per-
haps both, OF the admiring shopmen. And
she still utters her little platitudes of COM
merce, and refers as martyrdom to her
first marriage to poor scribbler, who never
could earn enough by any thing he wrote to
keep her in proper STYLE
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Portrait WALLPAPER.
[Clara Belief

If you have ever been kept abed all day
long by illness, on are lazy enough to leave
your head on your pillow long after daylight
in the morning, you know how the figures on
a papered wall, twisted by your imagination,
become grotesqne faces. Quite fascinating
they become, after being once shaped in your
vision and you can't got rid Of them if you
try. Well, it is a new freal, Of fashion, for
those who can afford 10 indulge in it, 10 have
paper made with designs Intentionally,
though very dimly, representing faces, ana
the features thus cleverly suggested, rather
than actually reproduced, are those OF some
member Of the family. This fantastic sort of
wall decoration is confined to chambers, and
the stylish thing for a girl is to have the walls
of her bedroom covered with her own por-
rraitlIre
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Oddities of Dress Decoration.

1t was the total absence of that subtle in.
definable something, called tact, which makes
man uDconsciously satisfied with himself.
the rest of the world, and most particularly
kind towards the party who creates the SEN
satlon that caused or allowed young lady to
pronounce "hideous" a magnificent specimen
OF these materials covered with dogs heads
III velvet enclosing, selected evidently by O
lover OF dogs and representing in velvet re.
lief, in minute perfection, the heads of bull
terriers in every stage Of pleasure and antag.
onism, with mouths closed OF open showing
teeth, while the expression OF the eyes sug-
gested the mental condition of the animal al
he sat for his picture.
The fair lady might have been less EN-.
pha0ic in her condemnation had she been
shown rare dress 'front.' after the oriental
designs OF a Partisan rug, with it0 velvet cen.
re pieces, a playful tortoise-shel1 kitten,
with uplifted paws and eyes full of fun and
frolic; but, if dogs were her aversion, she
would hardly have fancied the intelligent
faces and perfect heads, with gracefully
curved throat and neck, of horses, for q
love of horses is usually combined with a
fondness for dogs
1t must however, be admitted that ami
mails are not as gracefully decorated as flow
ers, birds and butterflies, although the senti-
ment conveyed may be more agreeable to
those who make practice of kissing cats and
dogs than the lighter fancy for more brilliant
or delicate effects, while others, may wear
either the one OF the other for only its nov
city as wearing apparel renders it of value,
just as some ladies, devoid of sensitiveness,
have no feeling but oneof pride and gratifica-
ton when the glittering rings of jewelled-eyed
serpents coil about the fair arm, or the
poisonous asp or undulating lizard are pinned
amid folds of rich laces or are reproduced in
velvet effects on ottoman or plain satin
grounds i'll the robes of to-day.
Most exquisite are the creations with
grounds in delicate tones of topaz pink,
mauve pearl, cream and blue, with sprays
of wild roses, leaves and buds in lovely col
ors, each spray mounted by a bird with out
spread wings, in various tropical hues, the
birds on each distinct ground being different
from those on tue other, but all perfect mar
vels Of beauty.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-11
Chinese Finger Nails.
TShanghai letter.


The Chinese are very inconsistent in their
talk about the dignity of labor. Once a
year the emperor and chief noblemen at his
court 60 into a field and pillow up few fur
rows, while the empress raises cocoanuts of
her own to set good example to their sub
jects. At the same time they allow the
finger nails to grow to an extent which in
capacitates them for labor Of any descrip-
ton. 1t is considered sign of greatest gen
tility, and a remarkable amount of time and
talent is expended in polishing and sharpening
them. When they have reached few inches
il length, they are inclosed in silver or gold
sheaths, and turned backward to the elbow
for protection. One gentleman in Shanghai
has grown lis nails 10 the length of eighteen
inches. The women, as is well known, have
their feet bound from the time they are
born, and when they are grown the exceed
ingly fine ladies have to be helped around by
their maids, 80 useless have they becomel
have seen women whose feet were only three
inches and half in length.
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Washington WOrl1inSvyOme-l.


A lady told me that she paid high wages
and gave better hours than any one She
knew, but she could not lind good house
hold servant. [ inquired her wages and
hours. Twelve dollars month, and they
are generally off at O'Clock, except on wash
ing days and Saturdays Forty cents a day
for from thirteen to fifteen hours hard, unin-
termitting labor, requiring taste and sllilli
What abIe-bodied, intelligent man in this
country would look at it: The lady did pay
good wages and gives good hours as the
world goes. We need expect no higher
estimate Of the vast and varied talent and
tremendous physical strength required TO per-
form woman's work in the household, nor
need we expect to receive the skilled service.
we demand in our homes until working
women themselves secure thorough training
and organization, 50 that they may compel
justice; for great reforms DO not originate
with the rich and comfortable classes.
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TIE RICHMOND OF TO-DAY.
Brisk, Clean and Orderly, Without a
Vestige Of the Late War Discern
ible.
Joaquin Miller-l

Joaquin Mulor-l
A wide-built city of brick on seven little
hills lowering above the plunging james
river, with many little islands; brisk streets,
very clean, wide and orderly, and SO densely
wooded as to almost conceal the three-stOry
houses; healthy, save down in the low and
miserable huts of marsh and mud, where I'M
cleanliness invites disease; busy CONNER
cial and manufacturing city beyond the
river, and several bridges, a rolling, English
down looking country Of vast reach and fer
tility still beyond; factories on the interven-
ing islands and river banks, roaring with
progress, sending up smoke that hoyers
over the tawny rushing river like the smoke
of mighty battle-and that is Richmond to-
day, only one generation after she was the
proud and warlike capital OF. the Confeder-
acy.
One is surprised at the order and the in
dlstry here. Now and then you come upon
knots of colored people loafing about in a
dazed, lazy and helpless fashion, but they do
not seem vicious or loud-only INDECENT and
helpless; black Micawbers.
Churches are notably numerous; school
houses-among which the residence of Jeffer-
son Davis is conspicuous, both from its
modest elegance and old association-are
also 10 De seen on every HaIlo throughout
this woody and industrious town. am in
forrned-I have no immediate means of test
ing the exact truth-that there are more
church MEMBERS comparatively, in the city
of Richmond than almost any other in our
republic. From the order, the cleanliness,
the quiet laboriousness of the people Of all
classes, l am inclined to believe the state
ment, whether of importance or not, to be
true.
A vestige of the war, material, moral, or
otherwise is not dlscoverable to the stranger.
Old Libby prison, down by the dirty river
bank, looks no more like prison than the
dozen other big tobacco-houses, all with iron
grated windows. 1t is no longer tobacco
warehouse, however, but monstrous, groan-
ing, roaring mill, where bark, bones. stones,
and all sorts of things are ground up for
fertilizing the soil But it brings up strange
fancies-this grooming, grinding, and gnash-
ing in there, and then the dense, black, We
suvian smoke that pours necessarily out of
the top, and hangs forever over it
The city is building fast; buildings are
booming ahead, just like New York, Boston,
London, Paris, improving in all respects just
like these and other great cities You are
liable to get mortar on you almost anywhere,
but the march of improvement is mainly
toward the west, and upon the banks-of the
river