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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-03-28

| CfaSain Burton, the Oriental tray
sier is British consul at Trieste, the
Austrian seaport. He and Mrs. Burton
are in the habit of spending two or
three days each week at a rustic inn
in the mountains above Trieste While
there, an interesting incident occurred
which showed the gratitude Of dog
The landlord of this inn had dog
Of nondescript breed, but with great
deal of sense and a grateful heart; and
he attached himself very warmly to
the English lady and gentleman, whom
he must have recognized as friends of
bis race.
The landlord, who was probably
aware that too much meat is not good
for dogs, used to be in the habit of
shutting him up on Sundays, lest he
should go from table to table and be
oyerted by the visitors.
Mrs. Burton tried to mitigate this
hardship by saving her own scraps
and taking them to the dog, that he
might not think himself forsaken; and
he quite understood her kind motive.
Now it happened one week that
Captain Burton was taken ill at this
mountain inn, and was obliged to re-
main three whole days in bed.
His four-footed friend knew and in
terpreted it after his own fashion, and
the method of shis doggish reasoning
was this: 81 used to be Shut up that |
might not have any meat, and Captain
Burton is now being treated just the
same"
So when his master threw him a
piece of meat, he did not eat it, though
he took it in his teeth and growled
ferociously if any one offered to come
near him.
By-and-by, when he saw the way
clear, he took the food in his mouth
and trotted off to his friends bedroom
door, where he sat very patiently till
soma one opened it in order to come
out.
This was the dogs opportunity, and
he rushed in, jumped on the bed, laid
the meat down within reach of his
mouth, licked his hand, and trotted
away again.
His meaning could hardly have been
clearer If he had been able to talk :;
and you will not be surprised to hear
that his friends adopted him as one Of
their own circle, and having so good a
master and mistress, is now one of the
happiest dogs in the world.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-03-28
An Oneraiic Ronnnza.

A Paris letter says that about thirty
years ago poor little musical COM
poser, very modest and almost un-
known, tried to sell The partition of an
opera which had just lately been pro-
duced here in Paris to some publish
er, but nobody wanted it. Perhaps
one of the music houses would have
accepted the partition had it not been
for the illustrious Berlioz, who adys-
ed him not to touch it at the price de-
manded-that is to say, a sum equal to
5000. When the publisher had decln-
ed the music, the young composer car
ried his manuscript to another house,
but it was refused simply because the
first had done 50. The poor mamie
is illustrious and rich now was
strolling along the boulevard, feeling
quite down in the mouth, when he met
young gentleman named Choudens,
clerk in the department of state. TO
him the composer of the new opera
related his troubles, whereupon Chou
dens said
"Ma fol, but it is lucky we met. !
am going to marry in a few days the
daughter of man who engraves mu-
sic series, and when we are married
we shall start music house for our
selves. | cannot afford to pay you
5000 francs for your opera. but | will
give you 1900 for it if you will trust
me for the year" The composer ac-
cepted these terms, and the opera was
printed.
The name of the opera is "Faust,"
that of the composer Charles Gounod
and Choudens has gained more than
100000 on this great work alone.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-03-28
Snrctncle Wenrers, Notions.

81 have one customer who habitually
wears six pairs of spectacles,' said
Optician Arthur Pratt. "IIe reads
with one pair, writes with another, and
uses a third for street wear. Then all
these varieties are repeated in holiday
styles People have lots of queer no.
tions about spectaclcs. One man had
notion that his eyesight was rapidly
changing. He kept running to an
oculist and had new pair Of glasses
made every week for a long time The
variations in the glass were very
triling but he thought they did him
good. There are plenty who wear
glasses for style, and have plain glass
insCead of lenses. Spectacles worn for
disguise are always arranged in this
way. Then there are many who do
themselves harm by postponing the
wearing of glasses until their eyes are
injured, because they fear to be made
to look old. Pride thus puts spectacles
on some folks and takes them off of
others.
"The best goods in spectacles and
eyeglasses are imported, although there
are some large factories in this country,
and much is done here by machinery.
The finest workmanship is by the
French.
Il have seen one pair of spectacles
sold for $64. The most difficult Job for
the optician is to fit glasses to one af.
flicted with stigmatism, a disease OF
the eye which causes objects to be dis
torted. Lenses for such eyes are quite
irregular, and must be ground to diff
ferent surface in almost every part, Sc
as to correct the vision. A person with
ordinary vision looking through such
a pair of glasses would see straight
lines curved and regular forms distort
ed. The grinding of the glasses is a
very difficult and delicate operation. >
Ne10 York Sun.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-03-28

The moss bumble-bee builds his nest
Of moss. When bird builds nest
he carries his bits of straw and wooI
in his boa}. But the bumble-bee does
not take his bit of moss in his mouth
and Ay away with it to his nest; he
pushes it along on the ground.
Three or four bumble-bees always
work together. One Of them takes a
bit OF moss in her mouth, shakes it
with her forereet, passes it on TO her
next pair of feet, then seizes it with
her hind feet and pushes it towards
the nest.
The second bumble-bee does the
same, and then the third, and so on,
till they have pushed the moss to the
nest. Then they break 1t into bits
with their mouths and stick it on.
The nest is lined with a stI,ky sub
stance as thick as paper. This keeps
out the rain If you should take up a
nest Of the moss bumble-bee, YOU would
see that it looks quite like a bird's-nest
bottom side up.
There is winding entrance to thu
nest, and bee always stands at thr
door, to keep out ants and lield-mice
who like to eat the cocoOns or eggs
You know a soldier who keeps guarC
is called a sentinel. SO this bee i
called the sentinel-bee. - Little Me-
md Women.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-03-28
What is Zero ?

Perhaps not one in one hundred can
tell off-hand why point thirty-two
degrees below the freezing point on
Fahrenheit's thermometer is called
zero. For that matter, nobody knows.
The Fahrenheit scale was introduced
in 1920. Like other thermometric
scales it has two fixed points, the freez.
ing point, or rather the melting point
of ice, and the boiling point of water,
The Centigrade and Reaumur scales
call the freezing point zero and measure
therefrom in both directions. This is
very natural arrangement. Fahren.
heit kept the principle on which he
graduated his thermometers a secret,
and no one has ever discovered it. II
is supposed, however, that he consider
ed his zero-thirty-twO degrees below
freezing point of absolute cold OF
absence of all heat, either because
being about the temperature OF
melting salt and snow, it was the
greatest degree of cold that he could
produce artifcially, or because it was
the lowest natural temperature OF
which he could find any record. The
grounds on which Fahrenheit put l8C
degrees between the freezing and boil
ing points are alike. unknown.-St
Louis Globe Democrat.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-03-28

CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.


The silk worm will eat only mulber.
ry leaves, and if they are wet he
loses his appetite.
A horse wearing shoes weighing
sixteen pounds, in the course Of
mile lifts $4,000 pounds.
A druggist states that there are
many people who become as infatuated
with ether as others are with gin,
brandy, whiskcy or wine.
san Francisco has Chinese doctor
whose income nets him $4,000 year.
He is a druggist as well as a physician,
and as the drugs are all imported by
him from China his profits are enor-
nous.
According to Pliny, there is an
Indian plant called Achgemenis, the
root of which, when made into lozen'
ges, and swallowed in wine during tho
day, torments the guilty all night,
and constrains them to confess their
crime
Among fishes there is one called the
sharpshooter lie has long syringe
out Of which he shoots few drops of
water at flies and gnats that lie peace
fully on the green verdure. Deliber-
ately he loads his gun and fires, and
if he misses his aim he shamefacedlY
crawls back into the mud.
Some letters of Horace Walpole just
published for the first time, give
strange pictures of the London of his
day. A favorite morning diversion
was to pass under the heads of newly
hung criminals at Temple Bar, where
people made a trade Of letting spy
glasses at a half-penny look. Another
fashionable amusement was seeing
prisoners hogged at Bridewell Hospital.
where men and women were brought
one by one to the whipping post.
There is wasp that lives in sand
burrows, the only animal except the
horse that sleeps standing 1t catches
spiders, caterpillars and butterflies,
, but instead Of eating them at once
paralyzes them by blow in the neck
and drags them to his little hole in
the sand. You may select his food
and place it before his hole and he
absolutely refuses to touch it. The
choicest morsel he Indignantly rejects
if presented in the way Of aims ol
gifts.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-03-28
The First Million Greenbacks.

Mr.. Sturtevant, of the stationery di-
vision of the treasury. carried the first
100000 of greenbacks from Washing
ton over the mountains to the West.
1.-The greenbacks." says he, "were in
common mail bags and L had to sit
with loaded revolver to watch them.
l remember it was in October, and
though warm in Washington, it grew
bitter cold when we got on the noun
tains. | had neglected to bring my
overcoat and | almost froze. carried
the money via Pittsburgh to Cincinnati,
and a few months later | took another
100000 in the same way. After this
it was noised abroad that the green
backs were being distributed in this
unsafe way, and the government made
a contract with the express companies
to carry them"
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-03-28
Buried Another.

q see" said Mr.. Thompson, turning
from his newspaper and addressing
his better two-thirds, 'that old man
Grettle has buried another wife,"
What you don't say so? Why,
bis first wife only died two weeks ago
When did he marry again."
"He hasn't married again"
thompson, are you foolP"
presumably, my dear, but why this
outburstf Grettle has buried anoth-
er man wife. He is an undertaken
you know'-Arkansa,o Traceler.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-03-28

that object, but was told one day that
had lost it ALL
I'm not business man, you know
and then l thought I'd teach water
colors; and well, you've been my
only pupil. you know. so I've got TO
say good-by; and there's something
else I'd like to tell you-but you might
be offended"
"Oh, no" said Miss Elizabeth.
You'll forgive me. Thanks" said
Mr.. Buckle. "Well. it is this-if
hadn't been such poor beggar I'd
have asked you if you could like me
enough to marry me. Ineyer met any
one so nice indeed, / never did; and
our tastes are alike, and all that. Ill
try not to think of it more than ! can
help, but l felt that must tell you
before we parted for ever"
Miss Elizabeth had put her handker-
chief to her eyes, and now was heard
to whisper something.
"Beg pardon" said Mr.. Buckle.
1--we got plenty" said Miss
Elizabeth
"Plenty?" repeated Mr.. Buckle
Money! gasped Miss Elizabeth.
PLENTY for both"
"You kind little woman" said Mr..
Buckle, and took her hand.
The brushes lay neglected, the color
dried on the palette.
They sat thus for a long while, then
"If you really love me" said Miss
Elizabeth. "it doesn't matter which
has the money"
Its awfully sweet of you to feel that
way" said Mr.. Buckle. "Only, would
it be right of me. you know? What
would your family say?"
In the mellow twilight that had be-
gun to steal over the empty little room
Miss Elizabeth's face looked wonder
fully soft and young as she looked up
at him; but think she scarcely could
have done what she did but for that
fancy picture of himself which he had
made for his landlord. If she were not
brave now she felt he might indeed
be found pendant from branch some
where.
Heaven knowsl I'm of age" she
said, with little laugh; land family
that has left me alone at boarding
house may say what it pleases; l don't
care"
ut is the right spirit" said Mr..
Buckle. 81 think it very fine. and 7
shall be made so unutterabiy happy ~,
it, my dear"
They kissed each other in the twi-
light, and left the room together arm
in arm.
4 X
at was very SLY of Elizabeth. We
expected more confidence" said the
Oldest sister to her friends shortly after
''But she has married well-a celebra-
ted artist, exceedingly rich. presume
they all are His name is Buckle"
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-03-28
BACCO. MARYLAND, MARCH 28. 1884
The Life-Ledger.
Our sufferings we reckon Ger.

Our suterings we reckon Ger.
With skill minute and formal;
The cheerful ease that fills the score
We treat as merely normal.
Our list ofills, how full, how great!
We mourn our lot should fall so
] wonder, do we calculate
Our happiness uiso'
Were it na best 10 keep accouro
OF all days, u Of any!
Perhaps the &,rlS ones might amou-f
1'onot so yety many.
Mems looks are nigh as often gay
As sad, or even solemn;
Behold, my entry for to-day
Is in the "happy' column.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-03-28
ChlLDREN'S COLUMN.
Two Little Girls | Know.

Two Little Girls | Know.
know little gid
Qou2 on noO
VINO when shes asked to go to bed,
Does just So.
She bring. dozen wrinkle, out.
And take' Che dimplc. in.
sh' pucker> up her rrctt, lips
And then she docs begin.
S'h' dear me- / don't scc ahy
All the others sit mp lto,
And vh, can't ~
Another little girl know.
With curly pate
Who say', "Whm Im grc big gtrl,
Ill sit up late.
But mamma siys viii mike NC grow
To be an early bird.
50 She and dolly trot away
Without another word.
oh' the sunny smile, and the eyes so blue
And-vhy yes. now think oft,
She ioots IKE uoa.
- Youfbs Compa non.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-03-28

Will practice in the Court of Appeals and
+ Che courts Of Charles, St Mary's, Calvert
AM, arundel, and Pr nee Georges counties
-2~s, he ~i-l attend regularly.
saA,,fce ,s,d address, Annapolis, Nd.
rs7ys-ii
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-03-28

at was very sly of Elizabeth. We
expected more confidence" said the
Oldest sister to her friends shortly after
''But she has married well-a celebra-
ted artist, exceedingly rich. presume
they all are. His name is Buckle"
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-03-28

Yes said the boy, Il might just as
well be at the head of my class as not.
But aon ! mind being at the foot, and
the otner oOys do, 50 ] sacrifice myself" :"
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-03-28

Miss Brown, 1 have been to learn
how to tell fortune" said a fellow to
a brisk brunette; "give me your hand,
if you please" La Mr.. White, how
sudden you arel Well, go ask pa"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-13
A Shin or Fire.
[Cor. n. o. Tines-Democrat.,

[Cor. n. O. Tines-Democrat1
Here on the Red sea, for the first time in
my seventy-five days and nights of sea voy-
aging, have taste of what fire on ship
board implies. One hot, breathless day the
chief officer is having large kettle of a
resinous liquor boiled, up forward on deck
stove, for application to certain parts of the
ship. It is left alone for a moment, boils over
into the fire, and in a moment more the
whole mass is ablaze. The liquid flows over
the deck, and almost before we can take the
fact in, great sheets of flame are leaping hall
way UP to the square-salis The
alarm is sounded, the sailors rush t.
the sand-barTels, and by the time each
man has thrown pailful of sand upou
the deck there is nothing left burning but the
kettle. Over this courageous fellow throws
piece of sail-cloth, and two other men lift
it TO the deck. In the meantime the captain
has ordered the donkey engine to work. ans
there is an immense stream ready to play
upon the deck were such measure neces
saIy.
| confess that my heart is humping away
wildly, but none of the officers or men seen;
any more concerned than if such a scene were
Of daily occurrence on shipboard.
a few men have been wounded or burned
in the operation, while some others have los,
part of their clothing. L suppose no more
dangerous form of FIRE could break out, ane
yet it is handled with perfect ease and does
not create ripple of excitement. In three
minutes it has ceased to be subject of COM
merit
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-13
Pccnilarisy of Chicago Wen.
Inter Ocean "I,ouneer "

1lueT OCSdu 'llOUllEPr.
In a conversation the other day with O
Wholesale man, he made few remarks that
! thought were odd enough to print "There
is a certain popularity" he said, "about
Chicago men that have noticed. They are
not ambitious that is, not in the New York
sense. No one here aims to make a fortune
of the size that the average New Yorker who
makes money at all is struggling for
Chicago men make a comfortable half mil
lion or million, and thereafter pay less at
tention to business, take life easy, in fact l
can point out two or three dozen illustrations
OF my statement, bright men, capable of any
enterprise, who have made all they want,
and now are letting the other fellows have
the rest
Go down to Washington park and see 'em
any day. The big SPECTATORS on change are
the worst of the lot in this respect Most of
them stop when their luck is best, not because
they are unnerved, but because they get
enough money. should be surprised, how
ever, if all this would change and Chicago
have her Vande1bilts. 1t looks to me, and to
good many others, as if New York got q
blow in the recent panic that she will not re-
cover from in years. Her rich men, you
know, were the iquidators, and that upset
confidence in the financial center of the
country. Why, the Chicago banks have
opened hundreds Of new accounts transferred
10 them by people who formerly banked in
New York. and in other ways the prestige of
the city has grown greatly within year."
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-13
POINTERS.

The GLOBE perfecting
press printing both sides
plates
The GLOBE eight paper, than
columns to the printing the when
the demand Of news advertising requires.
The GLOBE
and receives and prints the full of that
The GLOBE special telegraph with telegraph
and editorial from St. Paul
via Chicago New York Washington.
The GLOBE special
and Washington by faithful
ens who will allow of interest 20
The GLOBE has elaborate in
Chicago.
telegraphs giving entertaining
tis markets. of
lvauing operators
The GLOBE has appointed the leading
and cities of Minnesota Northern
Iowa. Dakota Montana.
The GLOBE every day year. Sundays
holidays included.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-13
1t was the Horse.
[Chicago Tribune.l


"You have stepped ON my foot!'
The murmuring zephyrs OF June morning
were kissing with dewy breath the rose
bushes that were soon to burst forth in q
wealth of bud and blossoms. The twitfer Of
the robin and the meadowlark rose cheerily
upon the cool, fresh air, that came from be-
You'd the hilitops in the west, and athwaT-t the
eastern sky faint bands of crimson light, rosy
harbingers Of the golden food that was to
come. made vivid constrast to the deer
blue OF the zenith, while over all was spread
the solemn hush that comes before break
fast
'sYcu are mistaken, darling" said
Gwendolen Mahaffy, looking up tenderly at
Pericles Perkins, 1t Vas the horse
Perhaps you are right the man replied,
stroiing the neck Of tne hoIse-a beautiful
Norman that weighed nearly ton-''but it
would have deceived even more trusting
heart than mine"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-13
untrustworsi,y information.
New York Grnphic.l

Young Smith IS greatly srnitten with the
charms of Miss de Moni, whose excessive
modesty Is only equaled By her fathers
wealth. The affection, however, is alto
gether one-sided One day last week, as he
was .'sitting OUT an evening urging his suit
ne accidentally laid his hand on the sharp end
Of perpendicular pin
60 that pinI- he exclaimed on the i'm
pulse OF the moment. Seeing at once that he
had made mistake he inquired, after long
and awkward pause, Miss de Moni, did you
hear what said7
eYe, sir, did, = was the response.
well returned he, .'you mustn't believe
all yt,Si hear
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-13
How Lost Hat Found a Bride.
Co.,


One day last week gentleman livirg g.
Qu'Appelle, received a telegram from the
young lady whom he intended to make his
wife in few days, stating that she was at
the Grand Central hotel and to come on. The
lady had been living in one of the northwest
srn states of the adjoining Union, and had
obligingly consented to meet her af:anced
half way in order to complete their own
union. The happy and excited bridegroom
took it for granted that the Grand Central
was in Winnipeg, and hastily preparing foI
the journey, boarded the first train for that
city. When nearing Brandon he put his head
out of the window to take a survey of the
situation The wind blew his hat OFF, and be
landed at the station bareheaded. OF course
his first care was to rush up town to buy a
new hat, but he had not gone far before he
came face to face with his intended bride.
She had teiegTaphed from the Grand Central
Brandon. Explanations quickly followed
and soon after they found themselves in St
Matthew's church, where the Rev DIR. Boy.
dell duly made them man and wife.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-13
NE said what Nc Meant.
New York Sun. ]

Now Y OK Sun.
/ was in the registers Office yesterday
morning conversing with my friend, John
Reilly, when an aged German came in and
looked about inquiringly. John courteously
asked if he could do anything for him.
"Yaw, said the visitor in broken English,
~ am come to file deSe-dese-" forgetting
the word and diving into his native language
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Reilly was so paraiyzed at the length OF
this word that he he'd barely strength to call
German assistant, who explained that the
old man wanted to file several real estate
convesances. 1t took a bottle of cham
payne 10 wash that word out of the registers
Office,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-13
THE WEEKLY GLOBE.

The Saint Paul WEEKLY GLOBE is published
every Thursday. It is especially and carefully
edited, and while it contains the cream Of the
matter published in the daily issues it is not a
jumbled reprint Of extracts from the DAILY
GLOBE, but has a large amount of valuable mat
ter, especially prepared for it by a competent
editor, who devotes his entire attention to that
ISSUE It is an eight page Sheet seven columns
to the page.