Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-18
GLOBELETS,


The exports of corn in bulk yesterday
amounted to sc, 024 bushels, distributed amozs
hree vessels.
Women are speedily obtaining their writes.
3eventy-two postof1ices in the United Statessa1s
conducted by women.
All the steel rails used in this country are
made here, and all the iron rails, except an in
fraction-less than one in GOO.
Most large country houses in Great Britain
and Ireland are now brilliantly Lit by gas made
on the premises, and SO are several large coun-
try houses in this country.
The iron and coal producers of the country
complain of the decline in the price of their
products, but cheap coal and cheap iron have
saved many manufacturing industries from
ruin.
Several rooms at Versailles hitherto closed
to the public, are to be opened from May l.
They contain as many as LOCO historic por-
traits, dating from the foundation of the mon
archy to 1870.
Rev. DR.. Wheeler, in the Pittsburgh, Pa,
Christian Adrocate, describes Mr.. Hayes as, per-
haps, one of the honestest, feeblest, and most
conceited men that have ever occupied the
Presidential chair
They have passed an act in British Guiana.
by which any one killing or selling birds with
tine plumage will be heavily fined. There
would soon have been no handsome birds left
at the rate they were going.
The last new remedy for hydrophobia is a
Chinese plant called datura stramoniune, VIC
lent poison. It is asserted that Chinaman
who drank some of the water in which few
leaves of this plant had been stepped, CON-
pletely recovered.
The United States now pay $3.50, 1000, 900 an
| nually to the vessel owners of other countries
Besides the snm actually paid in freights, it is
| computed that 300 steamships, employing
$4,000 men, earning $1,50U,0OO monthly, ara
| employed IN our trade with Europe.
The exports of wheat from New York last
week to Europe were distributed as follows to
Continental cities other than French direct.
273,l97 bushels; to French cities direct 1885,
IT'S bushels; to Great Britain for orders, $751;
633 bushels. Total, l,0l2, COS bushels.
Caius college, Cambridge, England, is pro-
nounced Keys, and Magdalene Oxford, Maud
lin. St. Mary hall is unexpectedly styled
''Skimary" in undergraduate language Streets
at Oxford are not spoken of as High street,
Broad street, &C., but as "the High" the
Broad" &c.
The United States war vessel, Constitution,
which sailed some time ago with goods for tie
Paris exposition encountered very severe
weather and came nearer being total loss than
it is pleasant to contemplate. The money ex-
pended in repairing her some time ago appears
to have been thrown away.
The bill before the New York general assem-
bly, providing for the gradual substitution of
iron supports for telegraph wires in the streets
of cities is commendable from an aesthetic if no
other point of view. Iron may be ornamental
while the wooden poles will always be deface.
ment of the beauty of a street.
Previous to his death one of the chief ter.
rors of William NJ. Tweed was the certainty
that the pulpit would point to the lesson of his
life, and from it draw moral to warn this
generation. The sermons that were preached
in many of the New York churches, Sunday,
show that his presentments were only too well
founded.
If Lord Beaconsfeld thought war imminent
he must have extraordinary confidence in the
ability Of Col. Stanley, Lord Derby's brother,
to appoint him secretary of State for war.
Col. Stanley's experience in military matters
is of the slightest, and his ministerial expert
ence has been confined to subordinate Offices
quite foreign to military affairs.
M. Gambetta proposed to allow Presiden,
MacMahon 100000, the minister of foreign
affairs $4,000, the minister of agriculture and
commerce $4,000, and the other minister.
, 600 each, in order that during the exhibi
tions these functionaries may receive the am
bassadors, scientists and industrial leaders Of
other nations with honor and dignity
large number of German spectators are
buying up estates in South Russia, where ow
ing to the succession of bad harvests and tn,
| recent blockade, family property is going for
mere trihe. An immense estate has been &C
, quired in Saratoff for Count Henkel Won Den
, nesmor, governor of Alsace. The price paid b.
his agent did not exceed sixty cents an acre.
, prominent Fort Madison Iowa. lawyer was
examining witness in hog case tried before
Justice of the peace, not far from that city
and he insisted very strongly that the witue
should tell the court what breed the hog il
question belonged to. The witness answered
of supervisors and Fort Madison lawyer
} and after that saying was interrogated no more
| The Wine and Spirit Traders society of the
United States have sent to all leading liquor
. dealers elaborate protest againt the
change of duty on wines now proposed b,
Congress- change from specific to ad,alorena
They argue that the effect of such a change
: will be to reduce the revenue, to drive honest
men out of the business, and not only to oper
the door and afford facilities, but to put a pre-
MUM on fraud and general rascality,
Large and attractive sign boards are a grea
feature of Chinese shops and warehouses, ant
? the words upon them a strange and anus
ing mixture of fowery literature of the lane
and the advertising instincts of Commercial
people. Here are some of the signs Of Pekin
Shop of Heaven-sent Luck Tea Shop O.
Celestial Principles ''The Nine Felicities Pro
duced;" Mutton Shop of Forming Twilight;'
1.-THE Ten Virtues All Complete
The capture of veritable river pirate on al
island in the Mississippi river, below Quincy
ILL.,, is event of considerable interest in thu
section. This fresh water buccaneer had
weakness for whisky in bond, and the burglar
, izing of government warehouse at Lagrange
Mo-, finally led to his downfall. Like a tru
pirate, however, he made determined resist.
ance, and it was only when the officers employ
ed the buckshot argument that he was fnall,
taken.
Since the first of September there have bee.
received at New Orleans 547.s49 bushels O
wheat, in bulk, against 93,725 bushels SAM
time last year; 3l3,636 bushels of rye-las