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Year: 1878

HE Governor has been in a quandary to
deteIm ne upon what basis to distribute the
seed wheat ordered by the Legislature.
There were three plans, viz: to distribute it
pro rata, according to the number Of appl-
cants; according to the number of acres each
applicant has prepared, and according to the
number Of bushels called for AS the
quantity is not sufficient to supply even the
minimum demand, the Governor has decided
to adopt the first plan and divide the wheat
pro rata according to the number of appli-
cations.
Year: 1878

To the Editor of The GLOBE


Sr. PAUL, March 3d.-Knowing you to be
humane man, and a friend to the dumb an
imal, appeal to your sense Of welfare for
man or beast, to call attention in your Jour
nal to the unhcristian use of drawing horse
cars by only one horse, through this city.
t fairly exceeds the acts of the Barbary
States in point of cruelty, and I hope you
will call the attention of the public to this
most shocking cruelty that is continued week
days and Sundays also, never giving man
your subscribers and friend to dumb ami
mails. MERcIFUL.


Referred to Mr. Cochrane and the other
79.-ED. GLOBE.
Year: 1878

To the Editor of The GLOBE.


I do not like to bother you, but our school
board and people in the district are in some
thing like Fletcher's condition in Manitoba,
only with US it is on the school book ques-
ton.


Our trouble is this: In section 10 of the
text book law it says that s:within one year
after the State text books are printed and
furnished to the State superintendent of
public instruction, and for the period of
fifteen years thereafter, no text books shall
be used in the public schools of this State
other than the State text books prepared un-
der the provisions of this act.''


The law does not provide for the primer,
none has been adopted, or belongs to the
series, and we are prohibited from using
any other. The question with us is, what
are we to do? We cannot teach the rudi-
ments without one, and we are prohibited by
law from using anything but what is given
us. After children are five years old they
are entitled to attend school, but of what
avail is it if they are debarred from any ad-
vantage that may give them unless they can
read in the first reader.


Please, Mr.. Editor, advise us what to do,
and deserve the everlasting gratitude of an
ignorant but we'll meaning community.


ENQUIRER.


Borrow some money of Merrill and
Appleton and go to bowling about the book
Year: 1878

WE are glad to notice that the Governor
is making no haste in filling the new office
of Public Examiner. AS long as we are to
have such an Office, too much care cannot be
taken in selecting the incumbent. To fill
that position not only ability and integrity
are required in the highest degree, but abso-
Lutte non ~partizanship. If politics determine
either the filling or administering that office,
bntiIp
Year: 1878

THE GLOBE will be furnished every day in the
week to city subscribers at IS cents per month $O
per year.


BY mail the SUNDAY GLOBE will be one dollar per
year in addition to the rate given above for mail
subscribers.
Year: 1878




AT the Unitarian church the MI. G. w.
Gannett preached upon the resurrection.
The sermon was rich in beautiful thoughts,
which were clothed in carefully studied
language. We have only space for few
extracts. He commenced by saying: The
flowers will soon commence to greet us in
our walks, standing like dumb angels, with
shining faces, to tell us that the Saviour
season has arisen. For winter we call the
death of the year. It seems like the arrest
of life. Its white suggests the shroud; its
stiffness the hush of the saddened house; its
universal monochrome is like the blank
which the great world suddenly becomes
when one who is dear to US can look at US and
speak to us never more.


Yet to what miracle of new life does all
this tend? Tie swathing and the silence and
the rest only hide the inward processes by
which the earth in its white chrysalis is pre-
pairing for motion and for color and for
sound.


Very beautiful, was it not, that picture of
the opening spring time, which was gathered
from our Bible, catching here glimpse and
there glimpse as it lies reflected in the
song of the psalmist and of the prophet:
HE quieteth the earth with the south wind.
He sai ,tieth the desoiate ground and csu eth
the tender plants to spring forth" Ten
million million tiny grass blades will soon be
on our hills and in our fields, trying to show
that ours, too, is ''Holy Land'' where tho
Father worketh hitherto. How certain it is
the resurrection of the spring! Some one
reminds us that as the harvest approaches,
the world is annually within a month or two
Of actual star yation. Let one single spring
time drop from out the role of seasons and
another would look on an earth full of silent
cities and very quiet villages, waiting for
some lucky and proyident Noah to wander
by tnat way and settle with his family. But
nature is SO loyal to herself, we have no
fear.


How punctual, too! Winter may be cold
or warm. may linyer OF hasten away, may
turn back and growl us out snowy good
bye month after we had thought that we
were rid of him, but it makes little differ
ence after all. Emerson hardly exagger-
Year: 1878

\ policeman having been called upon
to shoot dog in yard ON Brush street
recently, took seat on fence, drew up
his legs out of danger, and remarked to
himself IA he took aim:


" The seat of all vitality is the heart,
aud here goes"


A COW in the lot beyond threw up her
head and went galloping round, and the
dog trotted over the yard as if perfectly
at home. The officer got n good ready
and observed:


The fear of death is often as strongly
exhibited in beasts AZ i'm man, and
their dying agonies have been known to-
bring tears to the eyes of their executors
-bangW


woman who was working up an old
knot in the alley flung down the AK. put
her head over the fence, and warned the
policeman that she didn't want to be
bothered any more, though she wouldn't
object to his shooting up in the air if the
police regulations required il.


" Natural history asserts that the
average life of canine is four years"
resumed the officer, ~ he brought the
revolver down again, "aud that they are
subject to fourteen different diseases.
] will now take that chap right be
hind the ear, penetrating skull and
brain, and causing death in from two TO
four minutes" e..


The smoke had scarcely lifted when a
melon peddler whose horse was coming
down the street at slow pace, rose up
IN his wagon and called out:


" II you boys don't stop shootin'
beans at me I'll wollop the hull crowd,
rich ones and all That ere last one
just ticklcd my nose ~


=" Natural hist" began the officer.
when the dog discovered . hole under
the fence and slipped into the street and
made off Natural history" repeated
the bue-coat as he dropped of the
fence, explicitly states that the dogs
must stand still when being shot at, and
il didn't hit him it's the fault Of
education"
Year: 1878

! In the spring of the year lS4O, a whaling
vessel sailed from the port of London
| upon voyage To the Polar Seas. Moth.
ing material is said TO have occurred
until their arrival i'm those solitary
regions, when IL became the duty of the
crew to keep n perpetual look k-out upun
the horizon in search of fish. While
thus occupied, it was fanCied by one of
the seamen that sail was disCernihlc.
as Tar to the northward rs the eve could
reach. As the course of the whaler was
toward the supposed vessel, mast be-
came gradually distinguishable amid
the mountain of ice which appeared i'm
that quarter to bound the sea. IL was
now summer, and the afternoon unusu.
ally calm, while the whaler gradually
neared the object i'm view, the supposi.
tlon being that IL was vessel engaged
IN operating upon the blubbcr i'm n bay
which would open To the view upon an
preaching nearer To the ice.


Upon arriving, however, at the spot IL
became clear that the vessel was a wreck
Embedded in the ice, and could only bc
approached by boat. This having
Seen lowered, the captain and several of
the seamen landed upon the ice and pro
ceeded To the vessel, which proved To be
a brig. The sails were furled. very little
appeared upon the deck, and all the ar.
rangements were those of vessel laid
up for a long period of time.


Descending TO the cabin, the first OBJ
lect that WAS seen was large New
foundland dog coiled upon n mat. and
apparently asleep. Upon touching the
animal II was found To bc dead, and the
body frozen 10 the hardness of a stone.
Entering the cabin was next seer n
young lady seated at a table her ewes
were open, and gazing with mild and
stcadfast expression upon the new
comers TO that solitary spot She was
dead and in that apparently resigned
and religious attitude had been frozen
10 death.


Beside her was young man, who, il
appeared was the brother of the lady
and commander of the brig. He. too
was dead, but sitting at the table, and
before him lay sheet of paper. upon
which were written the following words:
" Our cook has endeavored since yestcr-
day morning To light a fire, but in vain;
all Is now over"


AT the other side of the cabin stood
the cook, with a flint and steel i'm his
hand, frozen To "A statue, in the vain en-
deavor TO procure that fire which alone
could save him and his companions from
the cold arms of death. The super
stitiOus terroTs of the seamen now
hurried the captain away from the
wreck, the log book alone being brought
away; and, from this, il appeared that
the lll-lated vessel was brig, which
had belonged to the port of London,
and had sailed for the Arctic region
more than fourteen years before.
Year: 1878

AZ last our hero came to resolution.
He would go and see Nellie and explain
the whole Of the wretched blunder.


He was soon striding away over the
fields in Hutter Of hope and excite
ment.


The sun was just sinking in a daz.
cling mass Of gold as he reached his des-
tinatlOn


lie tapped gently ON the door, hut OBJ
tanned no answer, 30 he softly lifted the
latch and stepped gently inside


Nellie was sitting by the window, her
face buried in her hsnds-sitGng still
~ death


Fred advanced noiselesslv and
touched her hpOn the arm.


She sprang hastily up, and, seeing
who IL was-crimsOn with anger and
wounded pride-she ordered him 10
leave the house but the effort was too
much for her, and she sank upon her
chair again, sObbing as though her poor.
innocent little heart would break.


In an instant the little schOolmaster
was on his knees by her side, and ia less
Year: 1878

The sweet face in the window isa
new song justout but il tits in a second
story window we would much prefer TO
have it out at the front gate and wait
there with it till the moon gets behind
q cloud
Year: 1878

WHEN summer passes away and the
flowers lie withered and sere when the
forest puts ON It's annual robes Of scarlet
and gold, when the breeze becomes
fresher and moro bracing, when the crack
OF the gun reverberates through the
silent isles OF The woodland, when every
thing has tendency to make men
pause and mediate ON The uncertainties
and vici@itudes Of life, what is sweeter
than 70 sit ON a rail fence and peacefully
devour a raw turnip?- Graphic


EDlSoS is experimcntingO the waves
OF light and hopes very soon 90 perfect
a machine chat will enable you to sec a
man a hundred miles away. IN case
the man In question has an account
against you this will give you plenty of
time to get under the bed and out of
harms way before he arrives u Dan
bury Mems.
Year: 1878

What is n Y ear I?
What IS year2 'Tis but wave


OF life's dark rolling stream
Which is so quickly gone that we


Account it but dream;
'Tis but single earnest throb


OF times old iron heart,
As tireless now and strong as when


1t first with life did start.
What is year? lis but turn


OF times old brazen wheel,
Or but page upon the book


Which death must shortly seal;
'Tis but step upon the road


Which we must travel o'er;
A few more steps and we shall walk
Life's weary road no more
What is year? 'Tis but breath
From times old nostrils blown,
AS rushing onward Ger the earth
We hear his weary moab;
lis but bubble on the wave


Or dew upon the lawn,
As transient as the midst Of morn
Beneath the summer sun.
What is a year? Ills but a type
OF life's ott-changing scene;

Youths lappy morn comes galy on
With hills and valleys green;
Next summers prime succeeds the spring
With flower everywhere;
Then comes old winter-dcath and life
Must find their level there.
Year: 1878

Moral CouRAox. Have courage to
face difficulty, lest II kick you harder
than you bargain for. Dillicult!es, like
thieves, often disappear alta glance. lIavo
courage to leave n convivisl party at tho
proper hour for doing SO, however great
tho sacrifice; and to stay away from ono
upon the slightest ground for objection,
however great the temptation to 90. HsvO
the courage 10 do without that which
you do not need, however much you may
admire it. Have the courage TO speak
your mind whenever II 10 necessary you
should do SO, and to hold your tongue
when it Is better you should DO silent
Have ths courage to speak to a poor
friend in seedy coat, even in the street
or when rich one is nigh, The effort is
less than many people take il to be, and
the act is worthy OF q king. Have the
courage to admit that you have been in
the wrong, and you will remove the mcti
in the minds OF others, putting desirSba
impression in the place OF an unsayorable
one. Have tho courage TO adhere to the
first resolution when you cannot change It
for II better, and TO abandon IL at tho
eleventh hour upon conviction,
Year: 1878

How TO WALK. The custom is now
everywhere prevalent for pedestrians 10
tako the right side Of the walk. The
practice avoids much confusion, pArtic
ulArly on frequsnted walks. Tho rule
has Teen SO thoroughly established that
any person found violating it is set
down as an ignorsmus. People now
take the right side as regularly IN walk
ing as they do when driving on tho
road, This being so, common sense
suggests that ladies' should always walk
at the right side Of gentlemea when
going In couples. II they do that, ladies
will never. be jostled when meeting
other persons-the gentleman being thus
always on the side ofcontact with peopio
coming from the opposite direction. GEN
tlemen should abandon the habit Of
walking half round them at every turn
of ,he corner. The old custom OF Civ
ing the lady the inside Of the walk,
when walking with her, has no redeem
ing feature. The lsdy's comfort and
protection is best insured by walking At
the gsntlsman's right side at all times.
Rome Sentinel
Year: 1878

Hon. George w. Peck, in his Fourth
of July grafton at La Crosse, Wis,
said


1T may have been noticed that thus
far l have made no allusion to the Amer
lean eagle, the national trade mark,
patent applied for, but it is not that do
no. appreciate the position ths: species Of
poultry occupies on these occasions. The
poet alluding to the eagle, says:


Bird of the broad and feeting wing,


Thy homeis high in heaven


This is too true. He is high old bird,
and the committee that selected the eagle
as national emblem should have been
arrested for disordery conduct, o, great
bird You live on mice. You soar aoft
on pinions airy, until you SEQ poor little
mouse with one leg broke, and then you
swoop down like ward constable and
run him in. You are nice old bird for
trade mark for nation OF heroes, you
old coward. You sit on rock and watch
a peasant woman hanging out clothes,
and when she goes in tho house to turn
the clothes wringer, you, great bird, ON
blem Of freedom, you representative OF
brave, you swoop down on the plantation
and crush your talons in the quivering
fash of her little baby, take him to your
home high in heaven and pick his inns-
cent little eyes out. You bald headed
old reprobate, you would turn your tail
and run at the attack of q bsntam-r -rsos-
ter. o, eagle, you look we'll on dress
parade, but you are unanimous coward
you eat snakes. You are a fraud, and
you were counted in by vote Of eight to
seven.


The bird that should have been select
ed as the emblem Of our country, the
bird of patience, forbearance, persever-
ance, and tho bird of terror when arous-
ed, is the mule. There is no bird that
com bines moro virtues to the square foot
than the mule. With the mule smblsz.
oned on our banners, we should be ter
ror TO the foe. We are = nation OF un-
complaining hard workers. We mean to
do the fair thing for everybody. We
plod along, doinga as we would be done
by. So does the mule. We as nation
are slow to anger. SO is the mule. As q
nation, We occasionally stick our ears
forward and fan flies off our forehsad.-
30 does the mule. We allow parties to
get on and ride as long as they behave
themselves. SO does the mule. But
when any nation sticks spurs into our
han1s and tckles our heels with \ straw,
we come down stiff legged in front, our
ears look to the beautiful beyond, our
voice is cut loose, and is still for war, and
our subsequent end plays the snare drum
on anything that gets irf reach of US, and
strikes terror to the hearts Of all tyrants.
SO does the mule. When the country
gets older, and Congress has time to get
to work, the eagle will be supplanted as
the national trade make, and in its place
will ride the mule in all its glory, and Il
ptlDibus unum, our motts, will be
changed to You piaribus mulanl, SIC,
diStemper atapacd -
Year: 1878


Little boy Blaine, come blow your horn,
To show the kind of watch you keep,
And scare the cattle out of the corn,
That entered when you ere fast asleep,
Open your throat and raise the cry,
Let loose the dogs OF sectional war,
And cause the fur and the feathers to fly.
For there's naught TO make and m uch to
Seel they have gathered, the stalwart


clans,


All ready and eager to urge you on
For this is the Il ST of the party plans,
And you are TO cross the Rubicon.
Stir up the animals Blister them well
There's nothing but red-hot iron Will dc
And give them IRE to bite aud to smell,
For surely It's nothing but sport to you.
Little boy Blaine, do you never ask,
When loudly you shout and blow your


horn,


II ever an end will come to your task


OF soaring cattle out of the corn ?
Say, can you figure and estimate


How long party should hold Its life,
That lives upon little butisectional hate,
That thrives and glows fat upon clvl
strifeP
Little boy Blaine. take care take care
Be sure you are right when you blow
your horn;
Be sure that the seally cattle are there
And don't you st fire to the heios oi
Year: 1878

The panicky condition Of the New York
stock market caused numerous dealers, who
were away rustcating and enjoying seaside
pleasure. to hasten to Wall and Broad streets,
In some cases they found it necessary to put
up larger margins, owing to the marked de-
cline in the leading stocks. In four Of the
fancies alone the aggregate shrinkage from
the highest quotation Of the present year
sums up one-tifth, or 20 per cent, of the en-
tire valuation.
Year: 1878

We give to-day portion Of the speech
in which the Marquis of Lorne bade fare
well to his late constituents in Argyllshire
and told them of the new country to which
ne is going in words that showed his famil-
iarity with the scene Of his future duties.
Some portions Of his speech are some
what naiue. as when he said that
he did not wish to injure his broth
er's chances before the electors by
appearing in his favor. and that he had
offered to visit and address his constitu-
ents whenever they asked him; but they
never asked him, because their sound sense
instructed them in politics better than he
could. These bits Of rather awkward hon.
esty aside, the pleasant character Of their
new magnatc's words cannot but mako .
favorable opinion in the Dominion.
Year: 1878

The Court of Inquiry in the case Of Gem
eral Porter Is now examining Witnesses for
the government. SO far as we have OBJ
served, their testimony does not invalidatc
the great mass of evidence from officers OF
both sides which has been given in favor of
General Porter. Besides this evidence.
General Lippit. Of Washington. compe-
tent military critic, has recently published
q complete and very careful review and
analysis Of the operations of what is called
Pope's campaign, tracing the movements
and positions of both the contending
armies from day to day, and in many cases
from hour to hour, and this paper entirely
exculpates General Porter from the charge
on which he was condemned. We have no
doubt that the result of the inquiry now
going on will also establish the fact that he
was unjustly treated. In times of war and
of great public excitement fAlsel,oods dam
aging to personal character easily obtain
credit. We remember that General Mo-
Duwell. Who 10 70 testify bAfors the COM
Year: 1878

II the average American politician is over
tempted to strike out and indulge his feel
ings in cipher dispatches to his near or re-
mote friends he will be apt to remember
the late terrible events and change his
mind. He villas the slang Of the times
puts things-"take no cipher in his"
There is every good reason why q man
should not use this method of communica-
ton. II is troublesome IL attracts undue
attention 70 what IL is desired should be
done covertly, and cipher never yet ef-
fcctually concealed secret. Temporarily,
cipher may hide the nature Of o communi-
cation. but the man who commits to
that sort Of disguise secret that is shame
full, and that he hopes to hide, not Tor inn
mediate advantage, but in order to protect
himself against future exposures ruinous
to his reputation, falls into o FOOLS para
disc and is the easy victim of his own cum
ming. Inasmuch rs the cipher dispatches
published in Tuesdays HERALD are, in part
at least, cipher used in the Florida
dispatches, and as the translation Of these
by the key of those who mnde them was
presented in court, this translation will
serve, with those interested in these studies,
as correction on confirmation Of the kex
Year: 1878

Peace hath her victories no less than war.
Mr.. John Kelly's ample brow is at present
wreathed with many laurels, but they have
been won in battles Of statesmanship and
not on fields of blood He triumphed in
the State Legislature Of the present year
he triumphed in the State Convention he
achieved Waterloo in the State Committee
on Tuesday last the famous cipher de-
spatches have stretched his most formida-
BILE antagonist at his feet in advance
of the next National Convention, and
now the prospect of divided opposi-
ton in the local contest promises
him an easy victory in the city in Novem-
ber In his triumphal career he even draws
into his ranks his supposed enemies. Some
OF the most noisy leaders of anti-Tammany
are preparing to march under Mr.. Kelly's
victorious banner and are doing him good
service in advance by undermining their
own camp and sowing the seeds of disaffec.
ton in their own ranks. This has Ger.
tainly been fortunate year for the Tam.
many leader, and it will not be surprising
if he should succeed in enrolling among
his faithful followers the working politi-
clans Of anti Tammany before election day
arrivoS tsAAsa eN