Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-11-21
GLoBELETs.

\ Ing.
genius of omensboro'. KY, has invented a.
road scraper which will do the werk of a dozen
men.
colored man in Richmond stabbed himself
| in six places to keep from working in chain
gang.
A four-acre orange grove in Orange county.
Florida has realized "a 200 for three successive
| years.
| Apples are 81 barrel in Massachusetts. and
one FARMER has converted his into Il, 600 gallons
of cider.
parliamentary paper just issued shows that
| pauperlsm ID increasing, and crime diminishing
| In England
! Some one says, watch woman's lower lin if
you want to know whether she offended or her
| feelings hurt.
Darcy, the last survivor" of Neapoleon's
expedition to Egypt has just died at the Iu
vaides, in Paris.
| Japan has made short work with her military
mutineers. Fifty-three of them were shot to
! death last month.
Mr.. Emery Speer, of the IXth Georgia dis
trict will be the youngest member of the
ALYth Congress-
| Mr.. Belllios. a bank director at Hong-Koug.
has given 81 1000 for the erection of statue to
| Lord Beaconsfeld.
After the first of January no bill of apy de
nomination less than five dollars can be issued
| by any national bank
Santiago IN Chill, is bravely sustaining the
repu'atio of the South American countries in
the revolution business.
Chm LIN Pan cannot get the hang of some of
our easiest words. He wrote home that Ameri
cans all eat door deys on Thanksgiving Day.
London converts her public bath houses into
| gymnasiums for the winter, under the proyis
ions OF an act Of parliament passed at the last
session.
In Asia Minor hereafter the police is to be
composed of Christians and Turks in equal
proportions, and to be commanded by English
officers.
Elopements in Maine are Mt discount. No
sooner is one announced in the papers than the
parties Implicated put in Ri appearance and
contradict it.
An English journalist died recently from the
effects of slipping on a bit OF peel and falling
on the pavement. He hurt his knee and cry
sipelas set in.
Boston Post: We have given up ell hope of
Sir John franklin, bat If Deacon George Will
liam Curtis or William q. Wheeler is in the
room will he please stand up2
utahs Congressional representative has got
four wives and twenty-five children He ought
to be chairman of the committee on home
atfairs-or anything but foreign relations.
Gambetta ia firmly opposed to executing any
more communists, or prosecuting them in any
shape or form on account of their past deeds
and the sentences outstanding against them.
The German board Of admiralty has con-
Guided a contract with Mr.. Alfred Leumer for
raising the Grosser Kurfurst from its yyatery
grave. The job is to be done by next August.
The Gum appropriated for the support of the
police force OF New York city this year was
s3999,o $50. Some of the papers intimate that
the city is not getting the worth of its money
No season within memory has been SO I'M
fortunate for the Greenland whaling feet as
that just past. The whole Scotch feet secured
but SIX whales, and one steamer was totally lost
Nuremberg has of late years fallen behind
both IN Its quantity and quality of toys it sup
Piled to foreign countries. Superior toys are
now manufactured in France and the United
States.
The city of Marseilles proposes to raise loan
of 100000 francs for public works, in addi-
ton to of $780, Coo francs the govern
mont has promised to contribute for special
undertakings.
The English house in the street of nations
at the Paris exhibition. with its contents has
been purchased by the Baroness Rothschild for
erection at Ferrieres. It was admired by con-
tinental visitors.
Elihu Burritt has presented to the library of
the Burritt school at New Britain Conn, all
the books in various languages which he has
collected and used at home and abroad for the
last twenty years.
Many gifts of money and precious objects
are now handed to Pope Leo XIII, in person.
for his own use, but contributions to Peters
pence have dwindled down to q mere dribIet
since the death of Plus TX.
Washington county, Pennsylvania, farmer,
aged 50, recently married young lady of 20,
and the family is badly mixed up, because the
| brides older brother is married to her hus-
bands only daughter.
Protestant hymns are sung III the public
schools of Waltham, Mass. Fourteen Roman
Catholic pupils refused to join in the singing
and were sent before the school committee
to be disciplined; but the committee took no
action.
The treasury authorities claim to have infor-
nation that almost the entire amount of the
trade dollars in this country are in the hands
of brokers, who are holding them expecting
legislation which viii increase their value 10
| per cent.
The California constitutional convention has
adopted section providing that three-fourths
Of g jury may render a verdict in all cases ex-
cept felony. In cases of felony Jury must
be unanimous in order to secure conviction or
acquittal.
When Bob Ingersoll was lecturing on Hell
in a Maine town, a man rose in the center of
the hall and shouted in stentorian tones: This
ERE hail is hot -. Can't the ianitor low
er the window and let some air yentilate
through"
midas already poor financial plight is ag-
gravated now by the Glasgow bank failure.
That institution was bolstering up Anglo Indian
| firms, and on them in turn depended numbers
| OF native firms, who had trusted them implicit
| ~. In Bombay the loss is severe
| According to the Swiss tables of mortality
just issued, FIVE hundred and niety-seven per-
| sons committed suicide last year In Switzer
land, which Is at the rate OF one in every four
| thousand six hundred inhabitants. preater
| proportion than obtains in any other European
country.
Versailles owes It's existence to the horror of
death entertained by Louis NV. Like his
predecessor. ne resided at st. Denis, when not
in Paris. but, from the terrace of his palace