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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-07
SOME SNAKE STORIES.

man in North Tisbury, Mass, says he
has recently drawn up eighty-nine snakes
from his well.
A copperhead snake recently killed in Hell
delberg Township, York County, Pennsyl-
vania, had fifty-one young.
Samuel Farmer, of Rails County, Missouri,
killed a rattlesnake in his kitchen that mea-
sured feet inches long.
On the D. A. Baker farm, near Norwalk,
Conn.,, there was found double-headed
snake. 1t had two eyes in each head.
Joseph Gassot, of Sparta, Ca, nearly lost
his life by being bitten twice on the foot by
moecasin snake while in the water.
rattlesnake with thirteen rattles attacked
a little dog Of David Adams at Lumpllin, Ga, ,
striking him in the side with its fangs In
fifteen minutes the dog died in great agony
in commissions. "
Two Virginia woodchoppers killed rattle
snake with quid of tobacco. One held his
head with forked stick close to the ground,
keeping its body constrained with his foot,
while his comrade forced the tobacco into
the mouth of the snake. They then released
it. 1t instantly became convulsed, and died
in a short time.
Fred Campbell, of Grass Valley, California,
says he saw the head of a huge snake emerge
from fence. Its tail was just forty-one feet
away from where its head was seen, and its
body was as large around as -four barrel
1t moved rapidly toward the Yuba River, and
was in sight not over one minute. Camp
BELLS companion certifes to the correctness
of his story.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-07
Write to your Mother.

If the sons who have left home could only
feel some of the lonliness that so Expresses
their mothers-could know only a part of
their longing for news from the absent ones,
and the bitter disappointment of watching
for letters that seldom come-they would be
more thoughtful of her whose constant care
for years was of them. 1t is usually mere
thoughtlessness; but often the most singing
wrongs ars committed through want of
thought. The young men have life before
them, with fortunes to make and honorable
names to win, and their chances and
thoughts are ahead. They do not realize
that their parents look backward far oftener
than beyond them, and that tears often dim
the dear old mothers eyes because the little
boy who used to come so confidingly to her
is now beyond her reach, and apparently
needs neither care nor sympathy. He has not
forgotten his mother; no indeed. But he is so
busy that writing is neglected, and if con-
science puts it in protest, it is silenced by
saying: ''Mother knows would write if any
thing were amiss." 1t is not so much that
the mother expects things to go amiss
Though she often thinks for hours of the
lassitude or headache the son has mentioned),
but she so longs for written characters telling
her that she is ''dear mother yet, and that
her boys are still 'affectonate" and ''lov
ing" The young men do not realize that
their letters are treasures, or that the small
est of their doings interest their parents |;
and they cannot understand the great love
that sympathizes with every defeat and sings
with JOY over every success. The mothers do
not grieve over mere absence; but it is hard
indeed for even the stoutest-hearted 10 see
their boys drifting away until they conclude
they no longer love them. This may not be,
for sons seldom cease to love and respect
true m others; but so long as they are careless
and neglectful, what proof have the waiting
mothers that their boys are not exceptional
ones, and have not allowed the busy world
to steal all their affections!
Boys, young men, middle-aged men,
every one who has a mother, remember
that the lives in her children, and you do
her bitter, grleyous wrong when weeks and
months elapse between your letters, which
| even then are not so affectionate as they
should be. Make them frequent and loving,
and tears of joy will often dim the kind old
eyes, because although you are bearded
man and her head only reaches your shoulder,
you are not ashamed to make ''dear mother''
a confdant of your joys and sorrows.
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LdIsgHlets.

''Hss that baby got the jaundice?" asked
a cranky old bachelor of young mother.
"Of course it hasn't. Why do you think so.''
Because it is such an ugly yellea.''
We are panied to learn that anew accident
has happened to one of the chambers of the
Keely motor. We were in hopes that the
accident would happen the old Keely him
self.
''The editor Of Punch is paid $4,000 a
year. 600 for writing jokes and $4,000
for proppng them up with italic, parenthcs-
es, brackets, dashes;a nd otherwise explain
ing them. 1t is none too much either.
''When do you thing of celebrating your
wooden wedding!" asked one Burlington
citizen of another. ''Shhr' was the eau
tious reply; ''don't mention it. There are
altogether too many broomsticks and rolling
pins in the house already"
1.-THE dinner doesn't seem to suit you, Mr.
Smith, ''Welr' responded Smith, with
some hesitation, ''it's pretty good what there
is of it, a few momente later the rest of
the boarders exclaimed in chorus: you're
wrong Smith, there's plenty of it such as it
is.''
It's In wonderful insight inter 'uman ma
ture that Thickens gets the pull over Dackery
but on the other hand, it's in the brilliant
shafts of satire, t'gether with a keen ssnse o.
humrous that Dickery gets the pull over
Thackens. It's just this: Thickery is the
humorist and Dackins the satirist. But, af-
ter all, it's absurd to instoot any com parison
between Dackery and Thickens.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-07
4 Story .4bout Or. Mecosh.

From the Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph
There is a good story told about the report
of lecture delivered by the celebrated Dr.
McCosh of Princeton college. 1t was deliv-
cred many years ago, when the papers of New
York were just introducing photography re-
ports. The Herald prided itself above all
others on the extent and correctness of its
own, and daily called editorial attention to
them in an egotistical way that was peculiar
to the elder Bennett. a young Irishman, a
Photographic reporter just arrived in this
country, was employed by the Herald to re-
port lecture of DIR. McCosh's that was at
tracing universal attention. In the course
of his lecture the doctor had occasion to
make the illustration: IF you put a red
hot coal on the back a terrapin he is
bound to travel" Catching the remark pho
netically and never having heard of terra
pin but thinking the expression a fine
Americanism, the reporter jotted it down.
When he came to write out his notes be puz-
lied over it for time. but finally fshed out
''If you put a red hot pole on the back of
eternity he is bound to travel,' and feeling
that this was incomplete, he added, with true
Hibernian eloquence, 'swhithersoever the
tide of revolutionary warfare may lead him. -
A previously written editorial called attention
to the beauty and crorctness of the report,
which, it is said. planted the seeds of the
elder Benefits demise.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-07
He Had to Sho,c It.
Detroit Free Press.


The railroad passenger who leaves from
any depot in Detroit must show his ticket at
the gate. The idea is to keep deadheads off
the trains and prevent people from making
mistakes, but it is poor day when a dozen
kickers don't show up.
Yesterday morning a man with very,
very iron jaw and lots of width between the
eyes reached one of the gates with a purcell
under either arm.
''Ticket sir
SIN my pocket.
"Show your ticket
''Can't you take my word that I've got
ticket!
''Please show your ticket.
cam 1 a liar:" demanded the passenger
''Ticket sir; show your ticket.
''Iql be hanged if I do.'
''An right; please stand back.'
''Look here, said the man with metal
in his jaw, ''I'll stay here thousand years
before I'll show my ticket at that gate.
dozen people laughed at him, but he let
the train go out, and walked around with
the parcels under his arm. He got no con-
ISOLATION for long two hours. Then a chap
with battered white plug hat, run down
boots, and last years clothes, slouched up to
him, held out greasy paw, and said:
'Pardner, put it thar. Both of us dead
broke. Both of US want to get out o. here.
Both of us got left at the gate. Pardner, I'll
toss up to see whether you pawn your red
whiskers or spout my old hat for two schoo-
ners of beer.''
The wide eyed man laid down his bundles
and kicked the other with such force that he
fell fiat. When he had picked himself up he
walked straight to the gate, exhibited his tick
ct and passed through with the remark:
"There it is, there it is. But I'll beat the
conductor or die with my shoes on"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-07
"oFF ON OvERCoAT BUTTONS"
Il Yankee Evangelist Who Was Ignorant OF
the Ynilso of Poker Chips.

the Yniao of Poker Chips.
An evangelist from the far east made q
tour of Texas recently for the purpose Of saw
ing some of the desperate denizens of the
Lone Star state, says the Washington Hatch
ct. He opened his first meeting in what is
known in the state as a "tough town."
About thirty hard looking male citizens com
prised the audience. After the good man
had discoursed little and sung several re-
vival hymns, he requested that collection
be taken up to carry him farther into the
state. A tall and fierce looking Texan,
armed to the nspe Of his neck, passed his
sombrero around, with the significant re-
mark:
"Guv. literally; you've seen the show,
and we ain It the men to beat any show
man.
The result was that every man contributed
something, and when the hat was passed to
to the evangelist he examined the contents
and then remarked:
81 find in this hat 81, Is cents, and two
overc0at buttons.'
That amt squar' deal' yelled the fierce
man who had taken up the collection, as he
mounted the chair. 1.-The man who put
them buttons in the hat will redeem them at
90 cents apiece, or there, II be HI here in
the toss of cent
Make no disturbance my friend, pleaded
the evangelist, holding the supposed buttons
in full view. 81 will
A shout and considerable laughter cut off
the evangelist's remark, and the tall man,
without dismounting from his chair, said:
''Mr. Preacher man, you're clean off on
overcoat buttons. Them ain no buttons;
them are chips, good for 80 cents worth of
Ticker in any gin-rnIll this side of the Rio
Grande They'll also git you cooked grub,
stranger, if yer appetite needs it.
The explanation was satisfactory and the
meeting closed.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-07
Hurt his Good Name.

ArRunSaS lTdNel ler.
''Yer mout offer me err hundred dollars ter
vote fur yer in de convention an it wouldn't
have no 'funnce wild me- said an old negro
in reply to candidate who had asked. for his
support"
sob, wouldn't offer you money!" rejoin-
ed the candidate. ~ believe in conducting
campaign fairly and squarely Corruption
in office-seeking has cast dark cloud ovei
our institutions. wouldn't think of offer
ing you hundred dollars. haven't the
amount of money, anyway.
Eyer amt. Well den, dar amt no usen
talkin' ter me. How much is yer got, no
how!"
"I've got So"
''Uh, huh, no use in talkin' ter me. I
amt gwine ter sell myself ter no white
man."
"Of course not"
''Look heah, whut yer gwine to do with
that SIS!
I'll make use of it.
''Heah, femme hab it. Dem folks think
dat Use dun sold out 'clare ter goodness,
white man it hurts er pusson's good
name to be seed er talkin' ter yer."
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SKETCH FROM REAL LIFE
| One cf COnnecticWt's Celebrities Who Has
Lired on MIX Since January Last.
/

One cf COnnecticut's Celebrities Who Has
Liced on MIX Since January Last.
Especial Correspondence of the World
Bridgeport, Aug. 22.-They told him
man in Philadelphia had been living forty
five days on nothing but milk.
''Poohl that's no time at alll'' said Joe
Harrison. "Look at me, living six months
an workin' every day an feedin' on none
of yer solids, but jist pure, clear milk.''
With look of disdain Joe fastened grub
on his hook and swung his line far out of the
boat after another striped bass. The boat
rested upon the placid surface of lake Waura-
maug, Connecticut, and the other occupants
were two New York City gentlemen. out for
a days fishing. Joe Harrison is a character,
and is well known by the hundreds of guests
who flock to the summer hotels upon the
shores of the lake. Joe knows where all the
good fishing is to be found, and is in great
demand by the city folks, many of whom
Joe supplies with fishing tackle, bait an wise
saws. Joe is always visible to the naked eve
by his bright bit of color, which harmonizes
with the ''toot one somble" of the waterscape,
and is known in Joe's parlonce as ''this here
red flannel Shirt
Eyes" says Joe Harrison, 81 hev not
teched a mossel of nothing since the fust of
last Jenury. live by one cows milk alone,
ez l don't believe in mixin' drinks. Do |
smoke or chew9 Well, 1 guess not. 1 hev
not eaten even berry this summer / sleep
eight hours, am out in all sorts of weather,
dig worms for bait, row boats, fish, do odd
jobs and FORK harder than lots of chaps up
around here. When feel hungry drink
quart or two of milk, but that's all. I feel
first rate, and am soused to milk that I never
think of eating anything. There is plenty
of them city fellows as has tried TO get me to
take little sumfin in my milk-just little
nutmeg and bug jvice, you know-but they
can't come it, 1 am geing to stick to milk 3"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-07
Il Far-Si0hted O6iciaI.
philadelphia Call.

Bank President-NIy dear, suppose you
know that am not only the president of the
bank, but the owner of most OF the stock!"
Daughter-Yes, pa.
''And if 1 am not mistaken you are becom-
ing rather fond of Mr.. Lightfnger, my cash
ier.n
Eyes, pa: confess it Is true. But ho,
do you know!"
Il have eyes. But why have you tried s,
hard to conceal it from me?''
''Oh, pa, please forgive me; but I knew
you would object to marriage with a poor
man, and, dreading your terrible anger, l
have tried my best to conquer my feelings.
Indeed, indeed have!''
'Conquer them! Great st. Bullion! 1
want you to marry him as soon as possible y
''Oh, you dear, darling old pa! But what
has wrought this strange lnetamorphoss?"
''Oh, nothing; only thought it would be
just as we'll to keep all the bank funds in the
family"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-07
Death On Cats.
St. Louis GIobe.Democrat.

One of the queerest of the many queer
things about Leadville is that in all the length
and breadth thereof there lives not a single
cat. Cats have been imported by the hun
dreds, and in all varieties of color, breeding
and size. but not one has ever survived the
second week of residence. Not one seems
to understand why it is that the cats all die,
but they do. The healthiest, sleekest, cat in
St Louis, if brought to Leadville would lose
all interest in life the moment it reached
here, and after moping around in a sickly,
disconsolate way for few days would resign
eGly have fit and give up the ghost. A sa-
loon keeper on State street brought big
strong Maltese from Denver few weeks ago
hoping the animal would survive the fits
long enough to become acclimatcd, but it
was no use. The cat had fit the first day,
two or three the second, and then the num-
Der of attacks increased in geometrical
progression until, as the saloon man said,
''TheTe were more fits than cat, and the eat
had to give in"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-07
DAWN.
rTbe Manhattan.l

On the upturned face of the quivering sea
Shimmered the dawn;
White bars of light stole up in the sky.
And the night was gone.
Was gone-with the fear of followed fawn.
And with hurrying feet,
To find in the shades OF the forest glades
A safe retreat
The legions of stars that had watched YEARLY,
Crept out of sight;
Uprose the helm of the advancing Day,
And fast fed the night.
A fresh wind blew from the edge of the sea,
From the gates of the East,
That FLASHED the tide on the feet of the land,
And in the light increased.
And the glittering tips of myriad spears
Shot up from the sea,
With guidons and pennants and lances oil llgh
A splendor to see.
A hundred flags were upheld in the sky,
And unfolded there
Banners of light tlNt giimmered and CLEANED
In the morning air.
Then from the glowing East uprose
The kingly sun,
And the sea grew gold as stool for his feet
To rest upon.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-07
Not Too Proud.

A gentleman who owns fine tract of
cedar land not far from Austin, Tex, a few
days ago was told that some negroes were
cutting down the timber, so he rode out to
see about it. To his establishment he found
wealthy white neighbor, with team and
wagon, hauling off the timber.
''Why, 1 am astonished, colonel" said the
owner of the land. 1 heard that lot of
negroes were stealing my timber and here
find you, white man, cutting my timber.
You ought to be ashamed of YOURSELF
swell, to tell the truth" responded the
other party, ~ do hate to steal the timber
Ike a darky, but these cedar trees make such
bully fence rails that concluded to drop all
pride of race
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SURGEON wOODwARD,s DEATH.
IA Ocestdesd Brain from. EsrJiaustiug Pro-
fessiOItdI Labor.
tWashinoton Snecial

Washington Special
Mr.. Mcpherson, who was DR.. Mcpherson,
who was DIR. J. j. Woodward's confidential
clerk, stated to a reporter to-day that DIR.
Woodward's death was reported to his friends
''as due to an accident five hours before
death, which produced a fatal hemorrhage."
at is not possible that he committed sui
eide" said Mr.. Mcpherson; che was not
that kind of a man." DR.. Woodward
malady was caused, his friends state, by
overtaXing his brain. At the time President
Garfield was shot, he had just recovered from
the effects of an accident, while riding on
Pennsylvania avenue, by which one of his
legs was broken, and he was hardly able to
get around. The care and attention be-
slowed by him upon the Presidents case, in
his weakened condition, seriously impaired
his health. OAfter the Presidents death, he
resumed his combining and exhausting la
bors.at the medical museum. He was per-
sistent student, and, after leaving his Office
in the evening, carried his labors far into
the night in his study at home.
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The Porting Promfse.
Chicago Herald.

promise me one thing" she said, plac-
ing her arms about his neck as he stood on
the platform looking up the track for the
train. Anything, anything, my angel
remnant. What is ita Hurry up; the train
is in sight,
THAT you will net accept presidential
nomination while you are gone. 1 have al
ways believed in. you; have never sought
to go back into your history beyond The hour
when we first met. Promise me if you are
nominated you will decline"
He was not nominated, aud they dwelt to
gether in harmony and peace TO green oil
age. and in death they were not divided.
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this twenty-five years. No one knows how
much she has suffered. have spent about
$4,000 for physicians and taking her to the
springs. The doctors once tried to teach
her to walk up an inclined plane, but to no
effect. ~
About half the congregation went immedi-
ately to the residence of Brother Wimpy,
there foond Sister Wimpy calm and with
sweet peace, and the same smile on her face.
After this Sister Wimpy attended all the ser
Vices in the church, day and night, praying
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NutHuNtPt HuttHOFne78 " Te.
Boston Letter to the New Orleans Times
Democrat

The venerable Miss Elizabeth Peabody,
now in her S1st year, is a sister of Mrs.
Horace Mann and of Mrs. Hawthorne
"Was Mrs. Hawthorne at all like Mrs. Mann
or Miss Peabody" l asked Mrs. Whipple to-
day Miss Peabody and Mrs. Mann are very
unlike and each strong in individuality
Mrs. Whipple told me in reply that Mrs
Hawthorne was prominently the artist in
her nature, and she gave me a little picture
of her when the Hawthornes lived at Leuox
that will always stay with me. The Whip
pies were visiting the Hawthornes, who lived
in the daintiest little cottage. For tea that
night Mrs. Hawthorne picked the currants
and made the bread, and Mrs. Hawthorne
set the table so that Mrs. Whipple and hus-
dand should face the range of hills, and they
sat down just at the hour of sunset. per-
feet food IF golden radiance mingled with
the duskY, purple shadows of defile and glen,
and Mrs. Hawthorne said: ~ wish 1 had a
Japanese house, that might throw the whole
side open to this enchanting picture"
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f l hadn't married"

The extent to which natural gas is enter
ing into Pittsburg's manufacturing life is
not realized even by the manufacturers
themselves. Many mills and factories have
discarded coal for gas piped to the city, and
in every section of the country men are
prodding holes in the ground hoping that
gas will shoot the drill high into the air.
The gas now in use in the city is brought
from Murraysville, Westmoreland county,
the Fuel Gas company supplying the man
ufaciurers along the north and south banks
of the Monongahela and the Pew 81 Emerson
company those along the Penn avenue dis
trict. The Edg ar Thomson Steel works at
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A Brief Interruption of Rmsfnesa

sccne-A Texas barber shop. Barber
Next2
Customer believe I'm next.
Other Customer believe I'm next.
Customer grabbing a razor)-I'm next.
Other Customer Grabbing razor I'm
next.
A short but noisy interval in which both
customers are killed.
Barber Ito quiet stranger in the eorner)-
You're next. sir
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Braddock are large consumers, their supply
being furnished by the Acme company, an
other name for the Doubleday q Bolton.
The wells in Allegheny county that are pro-
ducing are the Chester, at Tare utum, the
Westinghouse Roarer and the Bissel well
above McKeesport, but scores of others are
Cninu dnvp
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Lucky Ternn Girl

A highwayman recently stopped a young
lady riding on horseback, and demanded
her mouey. She dropped her purse in the
road. and then started on run for home.
The highwayman dismounted to secure the
purse, when bis horse started off after the
young lady, following her clear home. He
was caught by the girls father, and on ex-
animation $4,000 was found in the saddle
pocket.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-07

height of the season in the same box at the
opera.
''Realy Kate, said Selma, az never was so
astonished. The gentlemen on your left
SIS always at my right now dear. He
will never be in opposition again."
"IIow delightfulI'
"For us? Oh. yes CharmiuplD
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Cause and Effect
TPhiladelphia Call. /

Mrs. Blank-''There it is again. This pa
per says that Mr.. Oldboy has made million
on real estate Transactions within year"
Mr. BIank-'sWhat or itl''
''You forget that Mr.. Oldboy was one of
my early admirers, and l might have mar
him IL / had wished. did not, and he has re-
manned bachelor. He is now rich while the
man married is still poor."''
''Well, might have been rich, too if-''
eff whatl''
eff hadn't married"
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KATE'S HUSBAND.
London Society,"

London Society.J
"The gentleman on the left, Kate-do you
know him! He has looked frequently to-
ward you.'