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LIKE A WINDMILL.

Among the eccentricities of the literatures
of couple Of centuries ago was notorious
and fragrant filthinesS in eating. Ben
Johnson was one of the worst of the lot,
and description of his manners at the ia
BILE hardly comes under the classification of
popular reading. But those who eat at
public tables will not need the description,
for many times each week their attention
is called to uncouth vagarieS in styles of
eating, which, if ali combined
in one individual, would certainly
give Ben johnson valuable pointers.
Habits at the table form induces for judg-
ing not only of the early bring up of man
or woman, but also in measure of his
moral character.
How to eat is one of the fine arts and one
that is rarely acquired late in life. 1t is es-
sentially artificial in its forms. and REQUIRES
long and patient study and practice to be-
come proficient in it. Horace, dear, don't
put your knife in your MOUTH from a
mothers lips, and ''John Henry, I'll spank
you till you wont know yourself if you
don't keep your elbows down." from the
paternal head-these are the remarks that
must be made many a time and oft
in Nehildhoods early days ere
the lesson is learned. But the
accomplishment once learned is not to be
forgotten. You can distinguish him the
world over. who in early youth was well
bred at the table. He may be poor, and
eat his meal from clothless table in a
miners camp, or in poor hut and yet he
will hold his elbows close to his side But
the man who was not well brought up at
the home table will eat like boor all
through his life, and when he upsets his
coffee cup in leaning over frantically to
scoop up the contents Of the butter dish
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No Order to Revoke or change.

From the Cincinnati Times-Star July "a.
1.-The great facts in the life of Gen.
Grant, of course, everybody knows" said
Gen. Samuel F. Hunt. sit is the little
personal characteristics which are far more
interesting and less widely known. You
remember when the Queen City club gave
Gen. Grant a reception just before his de-
parture on his famous trip around the
world. Well, the next morning after Mr..
Washington Mclean gave him a private
dinner party of us, including Commodore
Allen, Mr.. Mclean, Gen. Grant and my
self, took trip to Glendale to spend the
day with Judge Stanley Matthews. never
saw Gen. Grant in such an excellent humor
as he seemed all that day. He talked
about his old home across the river, his
friends in Cincinnati, laughed and chatted
about his early boyhood experiences, and
seemed contented and happy with the world
and all about him. Toward dark we took
the train to the city again. 1t was not
passenger train, and we were obliged to
find seats on the mail bags in the postal
car. sat next to Gen. Grant, and I never
shall forget very significant remark he
made. We were talking about the war,
and the general bent toward me andeI saw
the peculiar earnestness in his face as he
said: In the heat of battle have given
orders on the impulse of the moment that
involved thousands of lives. but don't
know one that [ would revoke to-day if
the opportunity should RETURN"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-09

wall hundreds of feet high is formed, which
gives cool shade on the hottest day; past the
model farm" through the great park,
over the Victoria and ''Albert" bridge to
quaint ''old Windsor, 'and out to Eaton
and Eaton school, where the boys were en-
jOying their noon recess in the cricket
ground or Fastening back i'm troops to the
afternoon recitations. The ride to Stoke
POgis is lovely, through quiet lanes, lined
with trees or thrifty hedgerOws, and as we
had no time to stop anywhere for luncheon
we improved the occasion by LAYING in
store of the great, delicious English straw
berries and curTant buns, which we lunched
upon with appetite and shared with our
driver. The most conspicuous objects upon
the way were the carved stone lions at the
entrance of the grounds and park. /, 900
acres in extent, of a fine country house.
once intended as home for the Prince of
Wales, now owned and occupied by lac
cording to cur coachman) ''Coleman'S
mustard" This continent is placarded in
large letters throughout England. and we
were glad to find out that its proprietor had
not only a local habitation, but so sumptu-
Gus a one.
The quiet graveyard at Stoke Pogis is
disiigured by an imposing monument in
shocking bad taste, which some man with
more money than brains was permitted to-
erect, but which stands there quite useless
"a monument of his own stupidity-for the
collective sense of the people would not
permit the remains of the poet or the SIM
pie inscription on the wall of the church to
be disturbed to satisfy the vulgar desire for
reflected glory of one individual, SO the
poet still reposes in peace by the side of
his mother under the old lateral tombstOneS.
and the daisies and buttercups grow up
about him and the ivy clings green about
the walls of the little church that
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-09
AProphetinH His own country.

AZ tell you my dear" said an old
gentleman to his wife on the summer hotel
yeTanda.
Don't tell me anything, sir" retOrted
the lady with emphasis
''But | believe"
bah! What do your beliefs amount top
but think"
''BahI You fiatter yourself. What are
your thoughts wOrth?"
But, my dear, know"
Don't talk to me about what you know
What you don't know would fill an encycIo-
pedia. Everybody knows you are stupid
old. senseleSS, worthless dotard. You don't
know enough TO come in when it rains"
''Who is that old gentleman over there?"
asked visitor of the hotel clerk.
Don't you know him? Why, he is the
chief justice of our supreme court. Puck
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with his knife, we see the legitimate "a
suits of bad early training.
THE PHILOSOPHER.

Then there's the man that chews his fod-
der like COW, with his mouth open, so
that his neighbOrs can observe the process
from inception to deglutition, makes an in
teresting and more valuable exhibition
when viewed from a scientific and anatOm-
ical standpoint. You can infinitely OBJ
serve beautiful illustration of the won
derful adaptation of means to ends which
characterize all natures works. How sup
pie is that tongue which, when the food is
received into the mouth, slows it away to
the grinders ON the left or right. How
nicely the teeth are adapted to their uses;
hard chunk of beef of nearly
a cubic inch is a mere baga-
telle for them. 1t is reduced
to an unacceptable mass of pulp in holy
minute. And then the saliva. How beau
tiful is the process by which it is secreted
and poured forth so plenteOuSly at the
right time so as to mix with the food in the
proper proportions. All this preliminary
to the process of digestion exposed to pub
lie view-it is almost as interesting and in
structive to the student of the human frame
as was the accommodating gentleman the
coat of whose stomach was torn open by
fragment of shell and through the aper-
ture thus made the process of digestion
could be watched. But nevertheless people
OF delicate sensibilitieS don't like to sit OPP
posite the man who chews with his mouth
open.
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or four months ago lost entirely the use of
her eyes, and became. as it was thought.
hopeleSsly blind Expert medical attend
ance failed to effect any relief, and gave
the lady little hope of ever regaining her
sight. Recently the sudden and alarming
cry of fire" rang from the lips of one of
her daughters. Realizing her imminent
peril, it seems that in the despair with
which drowning man grasps at straw,
the lady made ali effort to omen her eyes.
The long unused nerves responded to her
will. The alarm proved to be without
foundation, but the fright it caused restored
a sight which the physicians had given up
as hopeless. In an interview with physi-
elan the reporter learned that it was more
than probable that during the long time
Mrs. Charles had suffered from neuralgia
the optic nerves had become weakened and
loss of nervous current had ensued which
was partially restored by the sudden shock
which the fright produced. The lady is
now enjoying comparatively good sight,
and the impression prevails that she will
fully recover.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-09

bury on visit, and the Duchess of Teck
expected by the 1:10 train, we were not in
vited to prOlong our stay. We saw the
queen, however, and the Princess Beatrice
as they drove across the inner court in a
low phaeton, which one of the young ladies
of our party thought not half so handsome
as our own. on their way to Frogmore, or
on their retum-I forget which, and it does
not matter. FrogmOre is where the Prince
COnsort's mausoleum is erected, n picture
of which is presented below. and is fire.
quently visited by the queen.
1t was rather touching to see the respect
with which gray-haired and reverend
looking gentleman, with his nice wife and
sweet-lOoking daughter. watched the ap-
proach of the queen. Not SO much" as he
afterwards remarked, when he met his
family party on the North terrace, because
she is the queen, as because she has been
an exemplary wife and mother-has
brought up her sons and daughters to per-
form their duty and exercised an influence
for good upon the whole nation. The North
terrace, the stables and st. Georges chapel
are open to the public at certain hours
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-09
WINDSOR CRsTLE

Inscribed in the hem of her robe and by
which he said he was willing to be Judged
and his name carried down to poSterity. An
other is the ''Blue Boy" figure of a grace
full youth III blue page costume, painted by
GainSbOrOugh in answer TO a challenge by
Sir Joshua Reynolds, who insisted that blue
as color did not supply an artistic medium
to the painter. The picture triumphantly
refutes this idea. A wonderful small pict-
ure is Murllo's sleeping infant Christ, and
remarkable one RaphaeIs visit of Eliza
beth to Mary, the mother of the Savior.
There are numerous examples of Claude
Lorraine, Poussier and RubenS, and a Gu
riouS portrait Of Van Dyck, by himself,
holding in his hand sunflower. This
picture certainly relieves Oscar Wilde from
the Odium of originating the decorative and
symbolic use of this hgh-colored emblem.
a crystal clock with large disc of brilliantS,
q cabinet composed entirely of onyx and
gold and exquisite old china, stand of
rare woods inlaid with pearl OF. ebony. are
among the hundreds of other beautiful and
rare objects. it was noticed particularly
that small articles in daily use lay about in
some of the rooms. such as books. with the
small vases of flowers and the crystal dishes
Of roses and maidenhair ferns, or sweet
smelling carnations, forget-me-notS and
mignOnette.
Another memorable occasion was our
visit to Windsor and Stoke Pogis, the latter
little village five miles from Windsor, only
interesting as being the scene of Gray's
Elegy in a Country Churchyard, and the
resting place OF the author. Windsor is too
well known to need lengthy description-its
towers of York and Lancaster, its ''round"
tower, its battlements and terraces, are all
historic. The queen occupies but small
portion of the south front of the massive
pile of stone, and as she was in residence.
the Marquis and Marchione IS of Sail
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-09

And so might be mentioned long list of
table habits which Artemus Ward would
describe as ''Ornery." There are people
who take slices of bread six inches square
and consume them by biting huge semi
circles out of them; there are those who
take their pie into their hands to eat, suck
their soup from their spoons with noise
like syringe and blow their noses from
the table. The last refinement of good
breeding is Miss Prim, with the jewel on
her right little finger. She is so anxious to
display it that with infinite trouble and
pains she has learned to crook back her
little finger from the last joint, trick
which never fails to impress her beholders
as they observe her daintily handle her
knife and fork.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-09

SOLID ingredients or the repaSt. My
charmer took boned chicken, cold ham
and potato salad, commencing her assaults
on the latter. hope 1 may never flirt with
another girl if she didn't pick up slice of
her salad, convey it to her rosebud mouth
and deposit it therein with her knifeI
For moment l was stunned. The air
seemed to grow dark around me, my tongue
clave to the roof of my mouth and gasped
for breath. L recovered myself, wondering
whether l were not the victim to horrible
nightmare, hideOuS dream. No; she did
il again. All. how true is Buttercup's OBJ
servatiOn to Capt. Corcoran, Things are
seldom what they SEEM" We apply the
apples of SodOm to our lips only to discard
them again, finding that they are filled
with ashes.
With such musings L finished my meal
hurriedly, and leaving my fair vis-a-vis to
enjoy hers as best she might, 1 went to the
veranda, where, while sucking a cigar in
the intervals between the selections from
the orchestra, J meditated on table man
nerS.
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Where Our Soda Comes From.

chicago Inter-Ocean.
Along the Peruvian coast, stretching for
hundreds of miles, are the famous beds Of
nitrate of soda, which purified, is saltpeter.
These deposits, more profitable than silver
or guanO. were discovered accidentally by a
vagrant Englishman named George Smith,
but were not operated to any extent until
recent years. Now nitrate, having been
found valuable component of hundred
chemical forms, is in demand the world
over, and millions of dollars worth is
shipped from the ports along the
coast annually. Before its value was
fully known number of far-sighted men
located ''claimS" after the fashion in vogue
in mining camps everywhere, and then the
government stepped in and forbade any
further presumption. But the original 10
cations cover enough of the deposit to sup
ply the market for century or two, and to
keep up prices they have formed pool, a
monopoly combination, under which they
charge from two to three dollars per cwt.
for what costs them about Is cents. There
is apparently no limit to the stuff, the bed
tretching up and down the coast for 800 or
400 miles
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-09
Good Usage "a an Authority.

Inc ArgOnauJ.
If discussion arises or bet is made in
regard to the pronunciation of a word the
usual authority consulted is dictionary,
and generally either Webster's or WOrces-
tiers. But why should they always decide?
In matters of etiquette and Orthography
general usage should be the accepted
authority. Take all in all. there is no
guide like good usage, and the man who is
most perfect in his choice and use of words,
as well as in the details of good breeding.
is either one Ito the manner born" to
whom it comes as natural always to do and
say the right thing as it does to breathe, or
one who has the good sense to observe
closely, and a ready intelligence that en-
ables him TO grasp quickly the true stand
ard, and TO be out of danger of perpetrating
sOlecisIns or social plumbers. But for those
who continually make mistakes, which they
know to be mistakes, and yet do not take
the trouble to correct them, there is no ex-
cuse or hope.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-09
MORNING HOURS.

She came in her girlish beauty,
With sunshine over her face:
The glow of the morn threw or her
A tender and nameless grace.
She pointed across the meadows.
The forests were calm and still,
And ripping under their shadow
Came CLEANS of a tinkling rill.
gazed on her lovely features,
1.-The voice of the brook hear:
Wen follow it's silvery windingsl''
She smiled; "And the glen Is near"
We basked in the mornings brightness.
Like children when toys are new.
And laughed at the swaying cobwebs.
Bespangled with glittering dew.
We stopped TO listen and wonder
At n blackbird's rapturous note.
And j saw the gentle fiutter
OF the lace below her throat.
Iheld her and kissed her softly:
.Dear heart have loved you lonrf''
And we stood in the sunlit meadows
Forgetting the blsckbird's song.
$ C.
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WIFE AND i.

Come and drain cup of joy
Now with me, good wife,
And bring the girl and boy
Now with thee, good wife.
Let all hearts be blithe and gay,
1t is fourteen years to-day,
Since you spake the little aye
That 10 me was life.
When in wedding white arrayed
beheld you stand,
Why, almost felt afraid
Fen to touch your hand.
And when with love intent
Your gaze on me you bent,
You seemed being sent
From the Better Land"
And an angel you have proved
Since that good, glad hour,
Ave, wherever we have roved
In sunshine and in shower.
In all goodness you transcend,
And all eXcellences blend
In the mother, wife and friend,
As a sacred dover.
You have made my life more pure
Than il might have been;
You have taught me to endure,
And TO strive and win
With your simple song of praise
You sanctify our days,
And our thoughts 10 heaven you raise
From a world of sin.
Come, let's quit the dusty town
With its noise and strife,
And seek the breezy down
That with health is rife
Work is good and so is play,
Let las keep our wedding day
Ger the hills and far away,
Happy man and wife.
John George Watts.
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Too Much Poetry.

Sam McGOnigle, an Austin stationer. was
seen coming down the avenue with a smile
as big as the broadcast kind of joke on his
face
''How's business?" asked Gilhooly.
Booming, sir, booming. 1 never saw
the like"
whats the cause Of it?"
Everybody who knows how to spell Is
writing poetry about the death of Gen.
Grant I've ordered fifty gallons of ink
and a carload of writing paper by telegraph.
Its wonderful, sir, wonderful. No one re-
grets the death of Gen. Grant as much as /
do, but nobody will believe me when 1 saw
Soo
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-09
The Picture Gallery of the Duke of West
minister Some of the Gems Con-
tanned Therein.
Windsor Castle and Its Surroundings-A
Glimpse at the Queen and Prin-
cess Beatrice.
Stoke PoSis, Where Gray, the Author
OF kIegy in a Country Church.
yard, is Buried.
The Mauso1eum of the Prince Consort
at Frogmore--Samue1 ohm
sons House.
T Copyrighted by G, W. Hanna. !

Correspondence OF the Globe.
LONDON, July 27.-One of the interest
ing events of our stay in London has been
visit to the Dukeof WestminSters gallery,
one of the finest galleries, if not the finest,
in London. The Duke of Westminster is
Very hospitable and very philosophical.
de gives his private riding school for
bazaars ana opens his magnificent suite of
reception rooms. called his gallery" and
filled with admirable works of art of every
description, as well as pictures, TO: concerts
for charitable purposes, and at least three
months in the year to holders of tickets,
who are privileged to extend the courtesy
to friends The kindness is perfectly free
and untramneled, servants are not allowed
to receive fees, and when our party
arrived there, fifteen minutes in
advance of the time-10 a. H.
OF opening. and unaccompanied by our
guarantee. Mrs Felix MoscheleS, who was
not due till fifteen minutes later, we were
politely received and allowed the entree at
once. To describe the interesting pictures,
or merely catalogue them, would require
more than the space reserved for this letter.
so | shall only indicate a few of the most
striking features. One of these is the mag
niticent portrait of Mrs. SiddOnS, by Sir
Joshua Reynolds, which contains his name
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every day in the week but one-and also the
Great park and grounds, including the
s'Long walk, even when the queen is at
Windsor, as are all Crown properties and
residences-so it is easy to see how strongly
attached she must be to her own and only
home of Osborne. The North terrace COM
mands the widest view of any within the
walls of the castle. 1t looks out upon Eaton
college and its surrounding neighborhood.
and down into a wooded ravine, which is a
tangle of luXuriant greenery, intersected
with lovely walks and furnished with rest
ing places beneath the fine old trees.
st. Georges chapel contains the tombs of
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-09
TOO LATE.

Had met thee in thy beauty,
When my hand and heart were free,
When no other claimed the duty
Which my soul would yield to thee;
Had wooed thee-had won thee
OH how blest had been my fate;
But thy sweetness hath undone ne
/ have found thee-but too latel
Like the fawn that finds the fountain
With the arrow in his breast;
Or like light upon the mountain
Where the snow must ever rest-
Thou hast known me-but forgot mel
For feel what Ills await;
OH It's madness to have met thee
To have found thee-but toe latel
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-09
VERY AWKWARD.

There is also the young man who can't
use his knife and fork except with his ell
bows on horizontal line with his shoulders.
This shortening makes him about as
dangerous to approach as windmill Now,
no amount of piouS scowl ON his face will
convey the impression that he has regen-
crate heart as long as he retains this selfish
habit. Ecclesiastical authorities indeed
differ as to the probability of mans enjoy
ing blissful Immortality who in life is
addicted to this habit.
The philosopher should also be consid-
cred. His scientific researches teach him
that the expose of large surface of heated
liquid to the air facilitates evaporation,
which diminishes the temperature. Recog-
MIXING that it is highly injurious from hy-
gienic standpoint to drink tea or coffee at
a temperature of $50 degrees, he pours the
hot beverage from his cup to his saucer and
elevating the latter utensil to his lips sucks
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Cheshire" and the table at the right.
with the wooden settee on one side and the
window at the end, was the table occupied
by johnson and his friends almost uni
formly. This table and the room are as
johnson and his friends left them i'm their
time. Johnson's seat was at the end. his
back to the window; Goldsmith sat at his
left hand. The latter is buried on the OBJ
posite side of Fleet street from the Cheese.
in Temple churchyard. The following is
the inscription upon the stone:
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therefrom the
gracious fluid.
1t is an ex-
cellent illustra-
ton of how men
of great minds
will, with the
greatest ease,
make applica-
ton of the pro-
foundest princi-
pies of physics
to the practical
uses of every
day life. 1t
isn't pretty, but
it is interesting.
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sirht Re.lored hrFrirht.

From the san Francisco Alta July t.
Mrs Charles has for years been a great
sufferer from neuralgia, and at one time was
attacked with congestion of the brain.
From gradual failing sight the lady three
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scheme, and
if that was a
success tofOl-
low it upwith
the foot rack
ct, something
awful hap
pened which
broke up ali
my plans.
L h e s o u d
had been re-
moved andin
its place came
{ h e III o + e
100000 A.
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." . . - . . .. .
Here Lies
OLIVER GOLDSMITH.
Born 10th of November, 172s.
Died 4th of April, IVA.

Goldsmith, it is said, lived and died at
Brick Court Temple. in the same building
where Blackstone wrote his Commentaries.
JENNIE JUNE.