Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-12
GLOBEL ETS.
Literary fellers in France are long-lived.
There are scarcely any old ma,ds in Rnssi.

There are scarcely any old maids in Russia.
Baltimore boasts the wickedest boys in Amer
lea.
London possesses nine cemeteries with to-
tai area of 2,225 acres.
The vassar college sylphs consumed $4,000
pounds of meat last year.
Schuyler Colfax it is asserted, has read his
Bible through twenty-one times.
son of of the late Siamese twins is
student at Chapel Hill Institute, N. G.
At the present moment the fashionable
drink of the English female aristocracy is gin.
There were 100 miles of tunnel in Great
Britain in 1877, which cost about S50, 100000.
On reaching home the Shah of Persia spent
the first day hard ct work kissing his ninety
wives.
The French have refused to award pre-
MUM to Edison's phonograph at tho Paris ex-
position.
Ex-Gov. Seymour has induced the war de-
partment to experiment in the use of cheese as
army ration.
Butler is subjecting himself to great deal
of wear and tear for man who hasn't any.
thing new to say.
A st. Louis justice offers to give any one who
will pay him $1,000 his entire fees for one year,
marriages included.
The beauty of mans parting his hair in the
middle appears to be that it gives both ears an
equal chance to flap.
Jesse Pomeroy has made another attempt to
escape from the Massachusetts, State prison, his
second within few weeks.
Emigrants to Cyprus should take their throat
wash along with them. whisky is retailed
there at thirty cents drink.
The Princess Louise is having a private
studio erected in the garden of Kensington
Palace. It is nearly finished.
The yearly revenue of Denmark is sl2, 92O-
600, and its expenditure Sl1.4450O0. Its pub
lie debt in 1877 was S51.970,000,
Dynamite is being used in Australia as a
means of discontinue in rabbit warrens. The
farmers rejoice propor,ionately.
New York Star: Beecher was beaten at cro-
auet up in Minnesota. We afraid they
didn't give the old man chance
| President Hayes owns about the only brick
building in Duluth. 1t is the most conspicu-
Gus landmark in the town viewed from the
| lake.
New Hampshire has hay fever association.
| At the regular meetings of the body every
member knows that he can relate his own ex-
| perience.
The Rev. J. w. Armstrong, d. D.. who was
! Methodist preacher and the President of the
New York State Normal School at Fredonia,
died last week.
the pernicious use of tobacco cigar stump
which his father some minister visiting the
house, has thrown away.
The city of Rochester claims population of
1000, and there is not sufficient amount of
ENTERPRISE among her inhabitants to establish .
first-class reading room.
The Icarian community of French Socialists
in Iowa, is reported failure, and three trus-
tees have been appointed to wind up the af-
fairs of the community.
The next meeting of the international con-
gress on prisons, which has just adj ourned in
Stockholm, will take place in Rome. Ameliora-
ton of prison life is its object
The Rev. Mr.. Cowan. formerly PRESBYTERIAN
minister, and recently Of the Reformed Episco-
pal Church, has been confirmed by Bishop
MacLaren, of the Episcopal Church.
Presbyterian paper reports that worthy
minister desires decent suit of clothes in
which to appear in the pulpit. He gives hi,
height six feet and weight $50 pounds.
MIR. Hogstuffer of Cincinnati has petitonet
to have his name changed. 1t would be an i'm
provement and more in harmony with the eter
nal fitness of things to dub him Mr.. Pork
packer.
A French senator and magistrate has beel
8 caught cheating at cards, and the authorize
: are somewhat puzzled to get at him. since as
Q senator he is inviolable and as magistrate no
8 to be removed.
An artesian well $3.50 feet deep has bee,
:, bored in Pesth, Hungary. 1t is the deepest il
:, the world. being nearly twice the depth of tina
: in Paris. 1t sends up Jet of near boilin
b water forty feet high.
English steel pens are almost entirely mad
by women. In 1S28-21 the first gross of three
slit" steel pens was sold wholesale at f7 IA. til
gross. In 1890 they had fallen to IS. and
Il 1882 to 6s. the gross. A better article is no
70 sold at Cd. per gross.
} Mr.. Frederick vokes the leading member {
d by the destruction by fire of his picturesqu
Is suburban residence, Lillian Lodge Fulhar
u road, London. TIE house, formerly known
70 70 Arundel house, was erected in the reign {
- Henry VIII.
j. The Roman Catholic episcopate counts IL
n prelates, 80 of them of Leo Kills creation
IS 1020 of Plus ks, and II of Gregory XVI
e. Two hundred and ffty-two of these card
% nails, patriarchs, Al archbishops, 1874 bishops
5s belong to the various orders; of these only
IL are Jesuts.
~ The letter boxes at Liverpool have sprn
!. attached to the flap, and when a letter is pus
"a ed in plate moves and shows the hour of II
last clearance. People can thus tell if they a
in time for a certain mail, and check is hs
on the postman charged with emptying Il
box.
The Duke of Westminster recently ente
as tanned the company from the London OPP
q, Comique at his riderside retreat at Chivede
le They went up in a steamboat dressed out wi
st pinafores instead of fags in allusion to L
n piece, N. M. s. Pinafore,' which they a
d. playing at present.
70 Mrs. De Gross and her 10-year-old daught
!; made up their minds to drown themselves
al the river at Alton Ill. They waded into t
at stream, and the mother obligingly aided t
III child by holding her head under water, b
Is. her courage failed when her own turn came
ly die, and she got ashore.
m Snake in the boots are common with ma
ay men who love poor whisky, but l.. A. Hawle
of Syracuse, found a live rattlesnake in one
his as he was about to pull it on. He v
camping out at Oneida lake, and had used
boots as pillow, one of which the snake
To pre-empted during the night.