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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-23
THE NEW BIRTH.
BY HERMAN MERIyALE.

God spake in a voice of thunder,
OF old from Sinai's hill;
And the MYSTIC words of wonder
Thrill the believer still;
He sees in the vault above him,
With the eye of Faith alone,
Gemmed round by the souls that love Him,
The great Creators throne.
He sees,-in the day Of DANGER
The column of cloud that led
From the land of the alien stranger
His Israel whom He fed;
And knows,-tho' His footsteps wander
Astray in twilight land
That his home is building yonder,
BY the one unerring hand.
He sees,-in the night of peril
The pillar of the fire that shone
From the hands of pearl and beryl,
To light Gods children on;
And feels that straight from heaven,
When the eye of sense grows dim,
Shall a grander sight be given
To all who trust in Him.
On the page of the mighty Ocean
He reads the Mightier still,
Who curbs the restless motion
By the law of His rbyal will;
And while in its course diurnal
1t murmurs, or sings, or raves,
He lists to the voice Eternal,
In the language of the waves.
He marks in the plants around him
The throbs of life their own
While the wordless worlds that bound him
Whisper their undertone.
From the hawk and the hound yet clearer
He hears the secret fall,
Which nearer to him and nearer
Brings the great God Of all.
In the leaves that blow and perish
In the space of single hour,
As the loves that most we cherish
Die like the frailest flower
In the living things whose living
Withers or eer they bloom,
He reads of the great thanksgiving,
Which breathes from the open tomb.
The bright Spring leaves returning
To the stem whence Autumn's FELL
And the heart of Summer burning,
To change at the Winters SPELL
The year that again repasses,-
The gain that again revives,-
Are signs of the darkened glasses
That bar and bound our lives.
1 know how the glass must darken
To my vision more and more,
When the weak ears strains to hearken,
When the faint eye glaZes DER;
But the glass shall melt and shiver,
Once kissed by the fighting breath,
And the light beyond the River
Shine full in the face of Death.
Strongest in q strong affection,
We look to the golden prime,
When a mightier Resurrection
Shall burst on the doubts of Time;
And the thoughts of all the sages,
Like the wave of the fretful main,
At the base of the Rock of Ages
Shall foam and fume in vain.
The Spectator.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-23

rain and dew. He is not aware, however,
that the phenomenon is more striking on
the coasts of the Caspian and Aral seas than
in other similar localities. In the 'Annal-
en- der Chemie und Physik," Vol. XXXv.,
page 329, Liebig writes that GAN the rain
water which fell in Giessen Hesse) during
two years, in seventy-seven rain falls, con-
tanned salt''
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-23

THE Greatest depth of the Atlantic Ocean,
according to recent investigations just pub
lished in Germany, was found to be S,341
metres "a little over five miles,, in 10 de
grees 80 minutes north latitude, and 60 de-
grees 80 minutes west longitude.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-23
TIMELY TOPICS.

"WHAT do we eat!" is getting to be an en-
quiry of interest for every household DEEPEN
dent on the public markets for household
supplies. The adulteration of commodities
going into family consumption is enormous
and startling, and health and life are put in
peril. 1t is needless to specify, for every in
telligent person knows the truth of the state
ment, and is aware of the necessity of the
utmost caution in providing family diet.
Here is a sad case in point: Cleburne county,
Alabama is terribly excited over the death of
a family of four persons from eating western
meat. Two days ago Mr.. R. G. Orwell,
well-to-do farmer, was in this place and,
among other purchases, took home with him
quantity of Chicago beef for the purpose of
giving it trial. While Mrs. Orwell was
cooking it her husband remarked that there
was something queer in its appearance, but
did not suspect its true nature. At the din
ner table the wife and three children ate
heartily of it, but Mr.. Orwell, being sick, did
not go to the table. Within 90 minutes Ed
ward, the youngest child, turned deathly pale
and died almost before his parents realized
that he was sick. While weeping over the
event the second child exhibited the same
symptoms, and it was not long before he too
was a corpse. The Oldest child had by this
time fallen victim to terrible retchings and
was in violent commissions, while his younger
brother was breathing his last. Then the
mother fell i'll, and by shutdown four of the
family were laid side by side. Officers are
taking steps to ascertain the cause of the
deaths, and for this purpose have sent off
some of the meat for analysis.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-23
SUNDAY GLOBELETS.
: Pleasure of every kind quickly

BURKE: Pleasure of every kind quickly
satifes.
MCCAULEY: Politeness has been well de-
fined as benevolence in small things.
j. PETIT: We are less thought of for what
we are, than for what we have.
SENECA: The pleasure of all things increases
by the same danger that should deter it.
SIR W. TEMPLE: No one was ever great
poet that applied himself much to anything
else.
j. PETIT: People that do declare they be-
long to no party certainly do not belong to
ours.
GOETHE: Superstition is the poetry of life,
so that it does not injure the poet to be su-
perstitious.
BAILEY: AS nightingales do on glow-worms
feed, so poets live upon the living light of ma
ture and of beauty.
SHAKESPEARE: The devil knew not what
he did when he made men polite: he
crushed himself by it,
COTTON: The seeds of repentance are
sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is
reached in age and pain.
STEPHEN MONTAGUE: There are times
when we are diverted out of errors, but could
not be pushed out of them.
SELDEN: 1t is not juggling that is to be
blamed, but much juggling, for the world can
not be governed without it.
LORD CHATHAM: Good breeding is benev-
olence in tri1es, or the preference of Others
to ourselves in the little daily occurrences OF
life.
WILLIAM PENN: If we would amend the
world we should mend ourselves, and teach
our children to be, not what we are, but what
they should be.
WENDELL PHILLIPS: Great political ques-
tons stir the deepest feelings of one-half the
nation but they pass far above and over the
heads of the other half.
BULvER LYTToN: There is no policy like
politeness; and good manner is the best
thing in the world, either to get good name
or supply the want of it.
MADAME DE LoMBERT: The pleasures OF
the world are deceitful; they promise more
than they can give. They trouble US in seek
ing them, they do not satisfy us when pos
sessing them, and they make us despair in
losing them.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-23
DAMON AND PYTHIAS.
The Old Story Recalled by the Close Friend
ship Bet,ceen Ttco Ohio Masons.
ICleye1and Letter

Years ago, when the Weddell house was
being built, Thomas Potter and James
Henry, masons, were at work side by side on
one of the upper walls. One of the men
slipped and would have fallen to certain
death below had notthe other caught hi IN and
held him until help came. From that day
onward the old story of Damon and Phythias
was recalled in the close friendship between
these two men. They were companions and
chums in the closest meaning of the terms.
They bought places in Scion and lived side by
side, and people got SO that when they saw
Potter they knew that Henry was not far off.
Said an officer of the Cleveland society for
savings: ''The two kept their accounts with
us for years. When one came in we knew
that the other was close at hand. 1t became
standing joke, and the men enjoyed it as
much as we did. They often said that when
one died the other would soon follow him. 1t
was prophecy, The two died recently within
FIVE weeks of each other. 1t struck me as a
unique thing hat such friendship should run
through so many years without flaw, and
that the two should travel over the dark river
almost in cOmpanyn
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-23

Iris narrated of the great sculptor, Mi
chael Angelo, that when at work, he wore
over his forehead, fastened on his artists
cap, lighted candle, in order that no shad-
ow of himself might fall upon his work. 1t
was beautiful custom, and spoke more
eloquent lesson that he knew For the
shadows that fall upon our work, how often
they fall from ourselves? How much we
need the light from above, to cast them to
the earth!
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-23

In Paris no fewer than &c, 1000 women make
living by the production of artificial flowers.
Many of these women are at present out Of
work, owing in part to flowers being out of
fashion and partly to competition in Eng
land, Germany and America.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-23
AND BARBARISM.
Il Big Drink and What Came oft.

One of the principal treasures of the Rath-
haus collection in Bavarian Rothenburg is
an immense pokal or goblet, holding twelve
Bavarian Sc1oppen, full six quarts. 1t was
intended to be passed around the table at
grand feasts; but on one memorable occa-
sion it was drained to the last drop by a
single individual, who was none the worse
TOR his excess. Perhaps his motive was his
protection. 1t happened in this wise:
When, in 1851, Count lilly, with his whole
army, took possession of the city, he called
the council togethes, informed them that they
were all to be beheaded, and sent the mayor
to summon the executioner forthwith. AS
may be supposed the man did not hurry to
do his Grand, and when he at last arrived at
the house the executioner plumply refused
to undertake the task of cutting off the heads
of his respected fellow-citizens, the council
lors.
During this interval, while the people were
lamenting, the eXecutioner protesting, and
the mayor shaking in his shoes, the coun-
cillors, in their desperation, hit upon bright
idea. They filed the great pokal with their
choicest wine and offered it to lilly and his
attendants. In few moments the temper
of the naughty conqueror was softened, he
and at last, becoming jolly over his frequent
draughts of the mellow liquor, he promised
to set his trembling prisoners at liberty, if
one of their number would, in his presence,
drink the great pokal full of wine.
This offer seemed at first only cruel
aggravation of their misery; but after an
anxious discussion certain Herr Nusch,
former mayor, accepted the challenge and
succeeded in the apparently impossible task.
lilly kept his word; servant was sent in
all haste to call back the mayor and bid the
executioner cease his preparations. The
street through which the servant ran on his
welcome GRAND is called Peace Alley Cried
ensgasschen) to this day, and the descend
ants of the brave ex-mayor still enjoy yearly
pension from the public funds, besides re-
naming owners of the famous pokal.-Eliza-
beth E. Evans, in The Manhattan for April
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-23

lime was when collegiate course was de-
voted to the cultivation of the intellect, to
the enlargement of the mind in storing it
with useful knowledge, and to acquiring
competent mental requirement to success
fully conduct life's business or professional
iabors. But this old fogy programme has
been largely changed. The high-spirited
youth who now enters our leading colleges
are largely devoted to boat races, base ball,
boxing and other ''manly" exercises, instead
OF being confined in the dull and lonesome,
and insipid cloisters of patient plodding
student life. Study is stupid, phsycial abili-
ty is brilliant, the one makes only men of
science in learning, and professional useful
ness, the other produces physical athletes,
aud dashing rowdies. Is it any wonder that
the police of New Haven are often called upon
to quell the riotous conduct of those s'hard
Students" who give more time to ''the
manly art of self-defence," stimulated by
ARDENT appliances, than to the plodding
requisition of musty, hum-drum classical
lore.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-23
Griggs' Glycerine salve.

The best on earth, can truly be said of Griggs'
Glycerine Salve, which is sure cure for cuts,
bruises, scalds, burns, wounds, and all other
sores. Will positively cure piles, letter and all
skin eruptions. Try this wonder healer. Salts
faction guaranteed or money refunded. Only 25
cents. For sale by P. J. Dreis, st. Paul, Mimi.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-23

A CASE of remarkable longevity has just
come to light in Fayette county, Indiana.
About month ago Mrs. Hannah McFeeley
died at the county poor asylum, where she
had been almost from time immemorial.
Thursday an old family Bible was found in
her room, containing record of the birth
and marriage of all her brothers and sisters,
and father and mother. 1T shows that she
was born in 1850, thus making her 1874 years
old. She has a sister now residing some
where in Ohio who frequently visited her Of
late, and whose age as shown by the record is
1O4 years. The last time she visited here she
looked very aged, though she was quite &C
tive. From the record there seems to be no
question about the authenticity of her age.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-23

The excitement is largely on the increase
in central markets in regard to the sale Of
spurious butter. 'sbutterine'' or "oleomarga-
rine,n as it is called. The manufacture of
this bogus butter is on the increase, and the
market is flooded with it, as is alleged from
western cities, that are now growing wealthy
by forcing the spurious article on the mar
ket. Before the New York Senate commit
tee an olemargarine packer testified that his
hands and face became sore and his nails
dropped off, by handling oleomargarine. His
system became impregnated with the poison,
and the doctors told him if he continued in
the work it would be his death. One death
was testified to, by being poisoned bywork-
ing in an oleomargarine factory. Another
testified that so great was the sale of oleo-
margarine that it was running the dairy bust
ness. These things being so, how largely
the public health must suffer from the con-
sumption of this bogus butter. The public
mind is excited none too soon on the SUBJ
ject, and tits high time to invoke preventive
prohibitory legislation for the protection of
the public.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-23

LANGUAGE grows. Words are made and
fashioned often by accident. incident and
use; often in very odd and peculiar ways.
The following is the alleged whimsical way
in which words grow into use and whether
true or false, it illustrates, at any rate the
ridiculous and fortuitous origin of many
words of general use and acceptance. A
German paper of the ingenious, reconcile
class presents the following as the origin of
the word ''charlatan - "In the olden time,
when the doctors, sitting in their studies,
weighed the ills of their fellow-man and
searched the depths of nature for remedies,
they were not in the habit of riding about;
their homes were hospitals, and
they did not leave their
patients. At that time genius of doctor,
who knew more about calculating for him
self than medicine, made his appearance in
Paris. His name was Latan. He procured
a small one-horse (char), upon which he
packed his remedies for all possible affec-
tons. With these he drove through the
streets of Paris, crying out his wares and
looking for patients. He was the first driv
ing doctor, and soon became renowned.
Whenever he came along, the populace
greeted him with, VOLTA lie char de Latan,'
This was soon abbreviated to 'Charlatan,'
which at that time denoted driving doctor.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-23

DIR. PETzHoLDT, of the University of Dor
pat, says tits fact long known to chemists
that the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere,
due to the evaporation of sea and salt lake
waters, invariably contains chloride OF sodi-
nm. which is precipitated to the ground by
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-23

THE report of Mr.. Mather, the Commits
sioner appointed by the English government
to inquire into our educational system, de-
clares that ''the effect of the public schools,
colleges and universities is not specially
marked, excepting in general education in
the literary branches, and in this direction
their influence is not always benefit. Too
large class of young people of both sexes in
America are seeking pursuits that avoid
manual labor. Their education in the high
schools and colleges tends rather to unfit
them for the active industries of life in
country where the vast resources of nature
are waiting for willing and trained hands
to utilize them.'
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-23

A quart of water is daily passing through
the skin of sound person. 1t evaporates
through the the minute openings, which
cover the whole surface, and if these be
plugged up, is compelled to travel through
the kidneys, and gives rise to internal disor-
der. Addition, therefore, if sound health is
to be preserved, is duty of the first impor
lance. Pure air is also essential to health,
and at night free supply of it is of especial
moments. Each sleeper draws into the chest
certain quantity of the surrounding atmos-
phere, and returns it after a change within
the body, mixed with poison; $50 grains
by weight of this poisonous ingredient are
added to the air of the bedroom in one hour
by single, sleeper, more than 1000 during
the night; unless ventilation provides for a
gradual removal of foul air, while fresh
comes in to take its place, health must be
seriously undermined.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-23

used for the Council and the dining room for
the House, and about the hour of noon
waiter would thrust his head in among the
salons and sing out 'DinnerW and then
there was sudden adjournment and gen
eral buzz The Territorial officers also had
on rfarc hara
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-23
THE TOWN GROWING.

year.
FIRST BRICK YABD-D. F. BRAwLEY
The first brick yard was opened and
worked by D. F. Brawley, now of st.
Vincent, who came to st. Paul, in April,
1S49. The yard was near where D. W. In
gersors residence now stands. He made
1000 brick in 1S49, and most of them
went into the building of the Methodist
Church on Market street. Mr.. Brawley says
that ''this is the best laid up brick build
ing in this city, and, if not taken down, will
stand for years.'' Contractors better look at
it.
We do not know what other special bust
ness Mr.. Brawley was engaged in during his
residence here, except as we remember his
running ferry boat, and was once mem
Der of the legislature. He was good deal
of politician, and very decided in his con-
victions. AS a man, he was generous,
kind hearted, social; physically strong
and energetic. He is about 60 years old,
but when he gets among the old settlers in
St. Paul, he is about 20. In his humble
sphere he did good deal towards laying the
foundation for our present growth and great
ness, and deserves more than this brief
mention. He has three children in the
city, one married daughter, one single and
one son.
THE OLD AMERICAN HOUSE.
One of the most conspicuous landmarks
of the city in the past, was the old American
House, long white wooden building, with
portico running thewhole leugth of it, which
stood on the corner of Third and Exchange
streets, where the brick building formerly
used for the street cars, now stands. This
house was opened by Rodney Parker, in 1S49,
and was run by Mrs. Rodney Parker for sew
eral years. Here the stages left for st. An
thony; here politicians met and discussed
questions of great public moment; here balls
and dinner parties were given; here strangers
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-11-23
Thanksgiving.

The pastors of the Protestant churches
of this city have agreed to hold a grand
Thanksgiving service on Thursday at the
Evangelical Lutheran Church. Rev. T.
T. Christian, Of Trinity NJ. E. Church, has
been selected to deliver the sermon. The
people of the United States, while they
have suffered much from financial trou-
bles and business depression during the
past year, have great cause to be thank
full to the Giver of All Gifts for the peace
full revolution in politics, which makes it
certain that the next administration of
the government will be in the hands Of
men of high character and tried integrity,
and for the bright future which is appar-
emily before this country.
The Southern States, especially, ought
to be thankful for restoration to their
proper position in the Union, and for the
blessings Of good crops and general good
health, and for their steady growth and
prosperity. Savannah's citizens have ex-
cellent reasons for being thankful. The
financial troubles which have spread far
and wide over the land have left them al
most unscathed. They have been free
from the rayages of dread diseases. The
spirit OF the people should be one of thank
fulness for all the many mercies vouch-
safed to them. Let them show it by a
public acknowledgment on this thanks
giving day.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-11-23
An Inquiry from Chicago.

Mr.. Thomas W~oOdason, proprietor of
the WOOdason Bellows Works, at Chica-
go, writes to the MORNING News inquir-
ing what success an attempt to form a
joint stock company for the manufacture
of bellows would meet with in this city.
In order that our business men and real
estate M may know that Mr.. Wooda-
son is looking in this direction with a view
of establishing a factory here, and in Or
der that they nay give Mr.. WOOdasOn
whatever encouragement they may think
proper, the inquiry is published.
Mr.. Woodason says that his customers
are chiefly in New York and the
Eastern States. This city has quick,
frequent and cheap communica-
ton with New York by sea. 1t has also
quick and cheap communication by sea
with Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore.
O%fcourse there is rapid communicated by
railroad with all parts of the country. 1t
would not be easy to find a location with
more advantages for the manufacture of
articles for the Northern market than this
city has.
The population of the city is increasing
quite rapidly, and all who are interested
in its prosperity can hardly fail to see
that the time is not distant when to
sustain the city's growth the establish
ment of other industries must be en-
cOuraged. If the people who are here are
to remain, and if others are to be in
fluenced to come. other avenues of en-
plOYment must be opened up. Now is
the time for Our leading citizens to think
of this matter seriously, Our cheap
water transportation to the great dis
tributing point of the country, New York,
Gives us an advantage over interior towns.