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St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-27


their detriment Here is hint to the seden-
tary: IF an abundant dietary is dangerous,
unless carefully watched by those who take
daily active muscular exercise, it is more than
dangerous 1t is disastrous to those who lead
sedentary lives. o. da5e brain workers. The
great majority of our adult middle class pop
ulation in cities eadosedentary lives, and it
may be said unhesitatingly that they as a
rule consume far too fmuch albuminous food.
butchers meat in particular. The albumin
oids of the food. not being fully oxidized in
the body by muscular exercise, remain as ef-
fete products, and ultimately give rise to
dyspepsia, liver Complaints, gout and Bright's
disease.
"One deplorable result of excessive meat
eating in England is The i'll temper which is
chronic moral COMPLAINT among U.S. In no
country, I believe, is home rendered so un
happy and life made 80 miserable by the III
temper of those who sRre Obliged to live to-
gether as in EnglaDd.il II we compare domes.
tic life and manners in England with those of
other countries where meat does not form
such integral article Of diet, notable i'm
provement will be remarked In less meat
eating France. urbanfty is the rule of the
home; in Japan ! never heard rude angry
words spoken by any but Englishmen / am
strongly OF the opinion that the i'll temper of
the English is caused In great measure by
too abundant meat dietary combined with
sedantry life. The half-oxidized products of
albumen circulating in the blood produce both
mental and moral disturbances
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-27
MRS. KADY BROWNELL EARNED
FAME FOR HERSELF BY HER
BRAVERY.
SHE SAVED MANY LIVES.
WAS WOUNDED ONCE IN BATTLE
MARCHED BY HER HUS-
BANDS SIDE.
HAS HER OLD ARMY sABER YET.
Only Woman Regularly Enlisted In
the Civil War-A New York
City EmpIoye.

A CHEEKY little woman is Mrs. Kady
Brownell, of No. 352 ST. Nicholas ave-
nue., who has won the distinction of
being the only woman on record as
having been regularly enlisted in the
war, says the New York Herald. She
is very happy at having received the
appointment of matron at the Park
Department house at One Hundred
and Tenth street and Lenox avenue
In appearance Mrs. Brownell sug-
gests nothing of the Valkyria, al
though she is one of the very few
women who have been in active bat
tie, and was not afraid to follow her
hero to the front. She is small in
stature, unobtrusive in manner and
has soft, sweet voice.
Kady Southwell had an English
father and a French lother, who died
when she was born, in South Africa,
where her father, a British soldier, was
serving in the army. Col. Southwell
returned soon afterward to England
with his baby girl and the body of his
wife, which was buried near their old
home. Three years afterward the col
onel followed his wife.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-27
BAD TEMPER AND BEEF EATING.
Belief That British III Humor Pro.
ceeds From Meat Diet.

st. James Gazette.
A trustworthy book on the art of
feed1ng is provided by that talented
lady, Mrs. Ernest Hart, a former SIN
dent Of the faculty of medicine of par
Is and Of the London school of medicine
1or women, and the authoress of a list
OF WORKS whose very. titles are of
appalling learning to the ignorant lay
man. Mrs. Hart treats c'Diet in sick
mes and Health" and, on the high au-
thortiy Of Sir Henry Thompson, who
writes an introduction, and is himself
the author OF a standard treatise on
the subject, she has produced a. more
complete epitome than is revealed by
any work which has yet come under
his notice.
The impression left upon the mind
OF a reader is that the Englishman is
sadly ignorant of the true art of feed
ing, and that he eats far too much
and takes far more alcohol than are
good for him. On the subject of in
toxicants, Mrs. Hart sets forth the
physiological effects Of alcohol from
the standpoint Of one who is friendly
toward its use in small quantities.
AS to the amount of alcohol that can
be taken with impunity she saws:
There is general consensus of opin-
ion on the part of physicians that from
one to one and half ounces of pure
oiCOuOi lS Tie maximum amount which
g. healthy man should take In twenty
four hours. Translated into common
parlance, this means from two to three
ounces of brandy or whisky, from four
to six ounces Of port or sherry, from
ten to fifteen ounces of champagne
or burgundy, or from one to one and
half pints Of beer or porter. More
than this is harmful. Persons under
forty years of age, in whom the diges-
tive functions are normally performed
and who show no signs of nervous
disturbance or degeneration, do not
generally require alcohol at all, and
are healthier and better and are likely
to live longer without it. For persons
over forty, in whom digestion has be-
come impaired by anxiety, confine-
ment in close rooms and offices, or by
sedentary or unhealthy occupations,
or in whom nervous energy is exhaust
ed or deficient, a small amount Of al
cohol in the form of wine or beer, ta-
ken with the food, is a useful stimu-
liant. By it's influence the secretion
of gastric juice is increased, and di-
gestion thereby promoted
The majority takes a more liberal view than
the physicians and Mrs. Hart-doubtless to
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-27
BEHAVED
Like a Statue Really Ought to Be-
have in Times of Great Excite


Like a Statue Really Ought to BE-
have in Times of Great Excite
ment.
Truth
He was lost in dreamy contempla-
ton Of the busy thoroughfare with it's
hurrylng throng, unmindful of the
CRIME and stains that marked and
marred his old-fashion garments, when
suddenly there resounded upon the
crisp air an ear-splitting roar, terri
bic clangor, a stifled Shrek from some
frightened woman, crash of splitting
timbers, a babel of oaths and rush
Of scurrying feet.
He stood transfixed, rooted to the
spot, without power to move a mus
Gle, an expression Of unconscious ago.
ny upon his noble face. Breathlessly
he waited, unmindful of the curious
glances bestowed upon him and the
ragged newsboy crouching at his feet,
his gaze fixed rigidly upon the spot
from whence had arisen that cry Of ter
ror. The crowd parted, a heavy truck
moved lumberingly aside,and the cable
car passed onward upon it's deadly
course. Still he did not move nor did
the stern expression upon his bronzed
features relax.
For he alone Of all the crowd had
nerves sufficiently hardened to with
stand the terrifying clamor and con-
fusion. He was the dust-besprinkled
statue of Nathan Hale.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-27
SCIENCE AND VOLCANOES.
Causes of the Eruptions Have Not
Yet Been Definitely Ascertafned.

Happy Thoughts.
It was formerly believed and taught
that volcano is mountain sending
forth fire, smoke and lava, this being
the sense Of the definitions in geogra-
phieS which are by no means .anti-
quated. Modern Investigations have,
however, changed this definition, elm
mating the word mountain and adding
TO the list Of substances elected the
very important one, steam, for stream
is an active worker and can by no
means be overlooked. There is an ap-
parent reason for assuming volcanoes
to be mountains, since they generally
build up conical mounds of ashes and
lava, retaining a central chimney for
the election Of fresh volcanic material,
but such elevation is not essential. A
volcano may be an orifice in the sur
face Of a plain, like a geyser, although
the latter are not classed with true vol
canoes. They are comparatively local
in their nature, the water being heated
very near the point of election, while
the volcanoes have an origin for their
lava at very much greater depths be-
low the earth's surface.
Then, again, the word mountain has itself
received modified definition, and even a
conical peak with steam issuing from its
apex may not be a mountain in the strict
sense of the word. Mountain, according to
the latest autnor1CeS, is dependent upon geo
logical structure and not on height, and our
Blue hills are as truly mountains, although
their SUBMITS are but 600 feet above the sea-
as the Himilayas or, the Andes, with forty or
fifty times the height. A mountain is no
longer simply an elevation Of land to 1000
feet or more, as was formerly taught, but is
the record of certain geological process. In
his "Story Of Our Planet" Prof. T. c. Bon
ney devotes quite little space to the consid-
Grafton of the volcano. THAT a volcano is
reared practically by one architect he writes
f'that the whole cone and the mountain prop
er are formed by the elected material, is now
generally admitted. But this opinion is not
always favorably regarded Before the days
Of Scrope and Lyell the elected materials were
generally supposed to play subordinate part
and a volcanic mountain was held to be
largely due to the upheaval of the strata Of
the earth's crust in conical form around the
orifice. In this hypothesis obvious difficulties
existed, such as understanding how the beds
thus uplifted could maintain their position
when the imprisoned vapors and lava had es-
capped from beneath"
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-27
ENTERTAINING A BUSINESS.
Delicate Task Which Some Cutti-
waited Gentlemen Have to Per-

Delicate Task Which Some CuIti-
waited Gentlemen Have to Per-
FORM
New York Sun.
He's the entertainer Of a railroad
committee" said one man to another
about a third man who had saluted the
speaker in passing.
and whom does he entertain?"
Mostly men from the other side of
the Atlantic. whom the company wish
es to interest in its schemes or securi
ties. Other persons, too, If need be.
Doubtless he has work of other sorts
On hand, but he is chosen primarily
because he knows how to entertain !"
The entertainer Of a railway COM
pany is well-spoken man who knows
Just Wnat to say and when to say it,
ne taxes the visiting capitalist in
hand, introduces him to the right neo-
pie and sees that he does not fall in
with the wrong people. Perhaps he
sees that the stranger is made com
PORTABLE at some good club or even in
v1ted to fashionable houses. although
the entertainer does not make use un-
necessarily Of what Is known as So
clety In furthering his ends. There are
still some rich Britons who hope to be
richer through transactions in Ameri-
can stocks, bonds and nortga ees
There are some amazingly green for
e1gners who have visions of sudden
wealth to be had in such transactions
For the most part, however, the visit
ing foreign capitalist is in search of
investments that will pay higher diyi-
dends than investments at home. It is
the business Of the entertainer to make
such men see his road as the managers
wish 1t to be seen. The task is a deli
cate one, for the visiting capitalist is
often shy and suspicious. Being a great
man at home he would resent a paIpa-
BILE attempt to manipulate him. If he
is to see the right people and be kept
away from thewrong people, the machin-
cry that compasses all this must be
kept out Of view y
The entertainer comes out in great form
when ne sends party of capitalists on a
tour of inspection over the road. Some such
tours are historic, and when their history
comes to be written 1t will be found vastly
more entertaining than the list of distin-
agency of the entertainer That shrewd per-
son sees that the trip is embelished with all
the luxuries of the table, solid and LIQUID
that the right man encounter the visitors
at the right places, and that the proper sta
tfstics are thrown in the way of the strangers.
There are a great many clever persons en-
ployed in managing a railway system and
pany for lubricating oil to keep engines and
other machinery in order, but there is no clev-
erer person and no more efficient lubricator
than the entertainer. 1t has been said that he
could not stand the test for moral color blind
ness, but doubtless that is an invention.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-27
INSTINCT TEACHES THEM.
Devices of Tropical Animals to
Guard Against Northern Cold.

Philadelphia Press.
The student Of animal life at the
geological gardens is startled frequent
ly by the remarkable display of sa-
gacity that is sometimes made by the
inmates of that interesting place.
What, for instance, could be more clev-
er, more thoughtful or more amazing
than the action of the indigo snake
when cold weather comes on? 1t was
illustrated recently. The first breath
of cool air that was waited across the
garden Informed the indigo snake that
a cold wave was at hand. They could
not hide their heads under their wings
like the robin of the nursery book. They
could not take violent exercise and
warm up their blood, for their blood
will not warm So they settle the prob
lem by swallowing each other in turn.
One indigo snake will swallow his bet
ter half, for example, until she becomes
thoroughly warmed up, and then she
will swallow him until he feels COM
Portable.
It Is a very clever action on the part
of these snakes. 1t vindicates their
character The fact that they swallow
one another is unusually put down by
unthinking people to ignorance. They
saw that the indigo snake will swallow
ANYTHING, even it's friends. Perhaps
that is the reason the snake story mend
usually stations himself in front OF the
indigo snakes cage. He KNOWS tnat
no matter how big a lie he tells, the
snake will swallow it as nonchalantly
as though 1t were piece OF garoen
hose or some Suoh luxury.
But more remarkable. in sagacity tnan tne
,rdipo snake are the, tropical birds in the
aviary. They arE,fprebably the most won
derfui geniuses ever seen at the Zoo. Com,
ing as they do, from India's coral strand
and other places where the thermometers
die of the fever and the iceberg is unknown,
thew find themselves unprepared Tor tne
riger of the climate here. Such was the
Condition of a number of the new bird ar
rivals from India recently. They mad notn-
ing but their light summer paJamas with
them. and when the biting winds came
whislling into their cottage they were chilled
telegraph instrument on the night OF prize
fight, and they shivered terribly.
Then their sagacity came to their rescue.
They noticed that as the cooler weather
drew near a large crop OF down appeared on
some Of the other birds, who were more ac-
customed to the changes OF temperature.
They wondered whether similar growth
would make it's appearance on them, put,
like the youth who watches for his hrst
mustache, they were disappointed. The down
did not come. They consulted their tropical
friends who have been at the Zoo for more
than a year. The latter winked and whis-
pered few words to them which raised hope
In their troubled breasts. That night at
twelve minutes past 13 these tropical birds
went out in a body and attacked the other
birds who had more down than they. With
sharp bills the tropical birds plucked the
down from their sleeping room-nlates. Little
by little they pulled forth the feathers until
they had stolen all they possessed. Taking
the down they interwove 1t SO cleverly in
their own feathers that 1t looked perfectly
natural. This kept them nice and warm.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-27
RIVER TRAFFIC. IN OLD TIMES.
Steamboat Captain Laments the De.
cadence of the Floating Palace.

Cincinnati Tribune.
at looks something like it used to look,
but it amt the old public landing, for a
fact" was the remark of an old steamboat
man, who years ago was a clerk on an Ohio
river steamboat But for many years Capt.
Davidson had been on the Upper Mississippi,
and his reflections had mournful tinge
why, remember when the steamboats, were
two and three deep at the wharf and some
of them had to wait day or two for room to
unload. And it was common case for boat
to bring In 200 passengers and on the levee
trucks were thicker than street cars on
Fountain square. I-reckon the railroads have
played the mischief with boating interests
here just as they have done everywhere.
And look up there at the Spencer house.
Why, that was a fashionable hotel before the
war, and prices were 81 and S. day. 1
put up there when l came to this town on
my wedding trip on the old Scioto Why,
they had dances there that all the best peo-
pie attended, and good many of them didn't
get invited either. Now look at the house.
Why, you could rent room for 81 a week
1 reckon, and might be mighty sorry after
ward that you paid that much. And right
over the street stands part of the old
Broadway hotel. 1t was older than the
Spencer house, and old Capt. Cromwell knew
how to keep a hotel. He was one of the old
time gentlemen, always anxious to see his
guest have a good time. And now half the
hotel is gone to make room for the bridge and
the other half is not a reminder of what that
house was like in its best days. Why, my
father told me that he was in Cincinnati at
one time when Henry Clay spoke from a bal
cony Of a hotel and though Cincinnati was
only small city then Broadway was crowd
ed from the landing to Columbia street.
All the old stores are gone, too and the
old merchants, too. There was a big iron
store run by the Shoenbergers, of Pittsburg
and Traber & Aubrey had big grocery right
next to them. And the big boat stores were
thick all along the river front and they did
big business, for it took lots of supplies to run
boats that were carrying hundreds of passen>
gers. But times have changed, and it looks
kind OF quiet-like around here now"
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-27
HER HUSBAND ENL1srED.

After the death Of her father Kady
went to New Orleans with Scotch
friends, and until she went north to
Rhode Island her life was uneventful
Even though very young girl when
the war broke out in 1861, she had met
and married handsome young bob"
Brownell. When the news came Of the
firing on Fort Sumpter the young hus-
band enlisted in the First Rhode ISL
and volunteers, which went out under
Col. Burnside, afterward general and
United States senator from Rhode ISL
and
It may have been the result Of inher-
tied soldier blood that decided the lit
tie woman to accompany her husband
to the front, and she was soon named
the daughter Of the regiment by the
devoted boys of Burnsides' command.
She became a skillful shot, and no SOL
der in the regiment was her equal
at a slashing saber stroke. She asked
no favors or consideration on account
Of her sex, and always wore all the
accouterments of a soldier, marching
beside or near her husband in the
ranks.
Her uniform was a blue flannel
ankles. On the march she wore boots
and always her belt and saber At
the first battle of Bull Run Mrs. Brow
nell stood fire, ''and when the regiment
was swept back Kady retired with
them, but was seriously wounded in
the leg.
This she bandaged as we'll as she
could, but as she could not walk
horses was found, which she rode for
thirty-four miles to a small town near
Washington, and there a carriage was
procured, which, with much urging,
she was persuaded to take
Young Brownells time of enlistment
expired after three months, and he re-
turned to New York with his soldier
wife, where he tried to raise a battal-
ion, of which he was promised COM
mand. His plans were not successful,
and the couple returned to their Rhode
Island home. The Fifth Rhode Island
Volunteer regiment was about to start
for the South, and Mr.. Brownell went
with it, accompanied by the heroine of
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-27

In case OF danger the Indian was ever ready
to act and often too at the expense of personal
bodily harm to himself. This promptness and
self-reliance in cases of accident has been the
means of his saving many lives. Equally alert
has he ever been for greater dangers, those
arising from disordered condition of the
kidneys, liver, stomach or blood, which he
knew as well as the best physician of to-day
would eventually result In death.
His remedy for these troubles was always
medicine compounded from roots, herbs, barks
and gums, not roughly thrown together, but
carefully compounded, the secret of making
it having been handed down from generation
to generation. This same remedy known as
kIcKAPoo INDIAN SAGwA, is to-day still made
as it was formerly by the Indian and is known
and recognized the world over as one Of the
greatest blessings ever given to man.
If you are ailing try this wonderful medicine.
A cure in every instance isospeedily effected
and in no case has harra' ever resulted from
It's use. Sold by all druggists
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-27
MAGGIE WAS ONLY HALF-HANGED.
Expiated Her Crime on the GaIlows,
but Lived Many Years After.

st. Louis Republic
A curious instance of the hangman's
rope falling to perform it's fatal work
gave to Margaret Dickson, an English
woman of a century and a half ago,
the nickname of "Half-Hanged Mag
g1e"-a name by which she was known
throughout the British isles. Maggie
had been convicted of some capital
offense Ghere were several such Of
fenses catalogued in the English stat
utes at that time), and was finally
taken to the gallows on the hill at Ed
inburgh. After the drop fell she was
allowed to hang several hours before
friends claimed the remains and start
ed with them in q cart for Mussel-
burg, six miles away. On the way
some drunken apprentices rudely halt
ed the cart and opened the coffin in
order to see the woman who had
been hanged. This let in fresh air and
the air and jolting Of the cart COM
bined to revive the supposed dead
woman long before the home of the
relatives was reached. Arriving there,
she was carried into the house, alive
but very faint and barely conscious.
A minister was called to pray for her,
but she soon recovered sufficiently to
demand that the preacher be dis
patched for a doctor, who could ad-
minister relief that would be Of far
greater value to her at that moment
than any minister's spiritual impor-
tunings. The physician soon arrived,
and Maggie quickly recovered, but
was never again tried or even arrest
ed for her crime. Later on she mar
ried and became the mother Of several
children. She lived to be quite old,
but the nickname Of "Half-Hanged
Maggie" stayed even after death, be-
ing engraved on the sandstone slab
that marked her grave.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-27
FSSHIZED SEA HORSE,
Singular Relic of Forgotten Ages
Unearthed Out in Montana.

Unearthed Out in Montana.
Minneapolis Journal.
One of the Queerest relics of a bygone
age yet unearthed in Montana was
found short time ago near Hammock,
and is now in the possession of Jules
Guyaz, of Medicine Lodge. The relic
was found by placer miners sixteen feet
below the surfacH, and is the petrified
remnant of an animal that raised it's
young, fought. its battles and lived its
life thousands of, years ago, when Mon
tana was covered by sea which is not
recorded upon the maps of the present
day, and had a climate probably similar
to that of Africa Mr. Guyaz is a grad
uate of the celebrated Jardines Elants,
of Paris, and is naturalist of ability.
To the find he attaches considerable
Importance. Gt Is apparently the head
and upper jaw of variety of the sea-
horse, and is about eighteen inches long
from the point Of the nose to the top
of the head. About midway along the
nose is large hump several inches
long and as many high. The eyes are
set very far back toward the base Of
the head. No sign of nostrils appear,
indicating that the animal to which the
head belonged was distinctly os the
amphibia class. The teeth are small
and perfect, extending entirely around
the mouth to the back of the Jaws. In
the center of several of the teeth perfect
crystals are formed, a fact of consider
able Importance from the scientific
standpoint. The entire piece is perfect
ly petrified.