Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-30
GLOBELETS.

newly discovered gold field in South Africa.
Boston Is to be the next city with an elevated
railroad, charter having already been OBJ
tanned.
James Gordon Bennett has leased the New
port polo grounds for three years. He's going
to polo his issues.
During August the indirect taxes in France
yielded 6.964, 900 francs more than M. Leon
Says budget called for.
Sir George Mares, of Arctic celebrity, has
been commissioned on voyage of scientific
explorations in the South Pacific.
Hathaway, the fall river convict, has been
set at work gliding picture frames in the Com
cord prison. He is gilded shame
cat which had been Imprisoned in a FREIGHT
car eleven days without food was discovered at
Bismarck the other day. 1t died.
A theatre at Alexandra, in Egypt, has had
such hard luck this year that it's proprietor has
turned 1t into cotton warehouse
At Jamaica, Vermont, a town almost exclu-
slvely American population. there are 112 fam
lies that never attended church, and fourteen
that have Bible.
Burlington has an ordinance requiring every
new born babe to walk right up and register
the first thing. They must commence voting
early in life up there.
Father Martin refused to permit a military
company In uniform TO enter the Roman Catho-
lie church in Branford, Conn, to attend the
funeral service of comrade.
Providence has lost it's sh riff after serv;ce
IF forty r.
the last man executed in Rhode Island, Retri-
button has finally overtaken him.
Sir Stafford Northcote, British chancellor of
the exchequer, is about to publish little VOL
ume of plays for children, written by him
originally for the amusement of his own
family.
Milk is found to be an antidotc to lead pois-
oning. The Journal de Medicine states that
after each operator at some white lead works
received quart day, no collie or harm to
health occurred.
THE monitors of the United States navy
should be sold for old IRON" SAYS Russian
naval officer. who has just inspected the latest
naval INVENTIONS of all nations, including the
monster Duilio.
&.
ings at the Paris exhibition. saws that the
French artists are lacking in the tact of max
ing their pictures look we'll, or of giving them
finished lock-.
The Russian government has forbidden sew
eral ladies who have gained medical diplomas
to practice in the province of Novgorod Rus
sian women doctors are usually very advanced
in political ideas.
Nearly fourth of the 80, 600 Chinese in San
Francisco are servants. Cigar-makers are the
next numerous, and after the tailors, shoe.
makers and laundrymen come 1.4U0 profess
sional gamblers.
The late Bishop Rosecraus did not lay up his
treasures where moth and rust corrupt and
thieves break through and steal. His only
property was his watch. His motto was
Watch and pray
country with newspapers and without govern
ment than in a country with government but
without a newspaper" Tom always paid for
his paper in advance.
Boston street car conductors have been
caught using fraudulent bell pinch which
looked and rang like the genuine article, but
made no hole in the slip of cardboard. 1t
hadn't the true ring about it.
A wholesale liquor dealer of Lawrence. Kan.
says he sold by flask over twenty-five barrels Of
whisky the week of big temperance camp
meeting at that place. The boys laid in a store
in advance, thinking the fever would take.
While Keokuk man was practicing on a
violin the other day, the roof fell in on him
and mashed him SO fiat that the jury brought
in verdict of death from being run over by O.
locomotive. This should serve as an awful
warning.
The whole number of postofIices in the
United States on the 30th of June the last day
of the last fiscal year, was 3925S, showing a
net increase of lob during the year. Most of
the new postoffices were established in the
Southern States.
Between the Goth of September and 5th of
October 1888 foreigners arrived in Paris:
3.764 of them were English, 1903 Belgians,
1890 Germans, 1,3ll Italians, s45 Americans.
709 Swiss, 667 Spaniards, ST. Russians 4s9
Dutch, 40D Austrians.
California wine manufacturers, according to
the San Francisco Chronicle, are indignant be-
cause Eastern journals have published pictures
OF Cinnamon and Others stamping the juice out
of tn grapes. They declare that the work ia
all done by clean machinery
The consumption of cotton by American
manufacturers was greater by 10000 bales in
1873 than in 1877. The yield of the staple in
the United States exceeds that of any year on
record being 4,Sll 265 bales of 1880 pounds
gross each up to September 1.
Wade Hampton has, sure enough, with malice
aforethought, unabashed, red-handed, come
out for the shotgun policy. He, with his staff,
went out on deer hunt at Brighton the other
day and brought down one buck and one fawn
greasy citizens of large swamp near Brigh-
ton.
Sir T. Acland, a Scottish NJ P, has had a
teacher from the Edinburgh School Of Cookery
visit his estate and give practical instructions,
with demonstration lessons, to his tenants,
using the appliances in actual use in their cot
tages. wood fires, crooks, and contracted
stoves.
prospective 'br idegroom in England, whose
income is stated to be $500 year. intends
leading to the altar bride whose dressmaker' a
bill alone has annually exceeded $4,000. even
during the period of her maidenhood. They
will enjoy analloyed happiness until the first
dressmakers bill comes in
Italy has thirty-two national Libraries, and
the entire number of readers last year was $685.
1888. The library of Turin is the one most fire.
quented, next those of Naples and Rome, the
latter and Palermo having between 10000 and
$4,000 readers. Thirty-two thousand new vol
umes were added during last year.
The Washington correspondent of the Boston
Transcript is perfectly certain that Judge Key
will place his resignation in the hands of the
President after his return from the Pacific