Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-23
GLoBELErs.


Revising business is rapidly reducing the
ranks OF the army of the unemployed.
Inc King OF Burmsh has married his half
sister In Burmah this ia the correct thing.
In India there are low 1851 miles of rail-
road now IN operati =, of which SEQ have
double tracks.
The prospects for the rice crops this year in
Japan are good, and there will be Surplus for
expectation.
Paul de Cassagnac is said physically to re.
semble the late John G. Heenan in ali excepe
| complexion.
Russia has LAS private schools, with 4o,615
pupils. The public schools number IT'S with
"A, 1873 pupils.
The wheat crop of Nebraska for this year is
| estimated at 25,000,O00 bushels and the corn
| crop at IS, 100000.
| female teacher at Cincinnati takes the pc.
| sltlon that women not truthful a. men.
This must be a lie-belle.
Dakota claims to have the requisite number
OF inhabitants, and will apply to Congress for
admission into the Union
[ The total canal tolls in New York State for
/ the entire season will show an increase Of
about 1000 over last year.
Mr.. Malcolm Henderson, of London, Ont.
being refused by Miss Abigail Nelson, consoled
himself by stealing her purse
| Ayoung lady in Albany has been fined e5
tor evesdropping. Ewes dropping was Adams
shame, and the punishment just.
| The Chinese always considered quere-
rlous fellows, and now hear that there are
Chinese Odd Fellows in California.
An indianapolis paper estimates the costs of
funerals In this country as Sl24, 0J0 O0O
There's millions in this undertaking.
| Instead of leaving flowers ana wreaths on the
graves OF dead friends. custom expects the
people of Madrid to leave visiting cards.
There are in Georgia 81, $50 persons between
the ages of ten and eighteen who can neither
read nor write, as compared with 1924 in
1874.
| Canadian papers bring the sad tidings that
her royal highness the princess Louise, has
lost her little rosewood cane with the buckhorn
knob.
Gen. Early will present to the Association of
the Army, of Northern Virginia, flag which
belonged to the Fourteenth Louisiana during
| the war.
All the Southern States are beginning to raise
less cotton and more grain. North Carolina
raised 20O0O0O bushels moro of grain this
| year than last.
The Italian governmen is about to ask for q
subsidy of $500 600 from its parliament, in or
| der to connect the sIon6 Cenis railroad with
that of the st. Gothard.
Several Russian journals are paying tribute
of admiration and surprise to the weli-conceived
end neatly executed plans of the British COM
manders In Central Asia.
Major Birch, the British officer who was kill,
eel at the head OF his regiment at the battle of
Fort Ali Alusjid, was one of the illustrious gar
rison of Lucknow in 1857
The science and geometry of dress" will
hereafter be branch of instruction IN the In
dianapois schools, compulsory on the female
pupils i'll certain Of the grammar grades
No fewer than million living creatures are
on an average sent through the German post
office every year, the majority of the packages
containing canary and other birds and bees.
The United States makes 800, COO GOO pounds
of butter year. If there Is a mistake OF half
a pound of butter on this calculation the con-
sumner will please cell round and rectify the
| same.
factory at Wappingers Falls. Duchess
county, N. Y, turns out 300 pairs of overalls
per day. The girls employed, with the aid of
sewing machines, make from five to thirty pair
each day.
How Jonah Lost His Umbrella" was the
title of sermon which drew to n Newport
(R. H. church many people who
pected that the preacher referred to the
prophets gourd.
May Fiske's British blondes were severed,
censured in Montreal for their scantiness of
clothing. Miss Fske retorted that her dress
was in harmony with the iow-necked order OF
the vice-regal court.
Swiss communist Journals went into mourn
| ing over the result of the recent duel between
Fourtou and Gambctti, because the latter was
not left on the field. They regard him as q
traitor to their cause.
The knights of the Garter used to wear the
decorations around the neck. Now they have
got 1T down to the left shoulder, and by the
time England cnnquers Russia they'll get it
down where it belongs.
Bismarck says that France has money and
elegance, but no individualties; ON the other
hand, while maintaining that Germany is
delicate demeanor and attire.
William MAJ ston Whitaker young artist of
Warwick, England, of good family, but An in
corrigible SC mp, has been sentenced 10 ten
years penal servitude for trying to extort
money from his sister aud his widowed mother
by shameful threats.
Not for many years has snow fallen 80 CO.
piously as during the close of last month on
the Alps Tile passes across Mounts St. Goth
ard, Bernard and Simplon were closed to
travel, and the mails had to be sent by the
Mount Gents tunnel.
The death is announced of NJ. Regnier, agent
of Marshal Bszane during the siege of Metz,
who employed in various missions to the
German army. He is said to have left some
memoirs concerning those negotiations which
are 20 be published at Leipsc.
A man Was shot at in Colts Station O., by a
highwaymau, bnt the bullet lodged in a book.
aud he uninjured The book was not
Bible that his mother had gwen him, but a
comic song book; an it was not next to his
heart but in his ccat-taii pocket.
1t is rnmored in the French capital that the
Dafaure Ministry will retire after the senator.
ial elections, and that NJ. Gambetta will be-
come President of the council, and will form a
very moderate cabinet which will ultimately
be modified in an advanced sense.
Russian salad IS made by cutting up raw ap-
Piles and every kind of available vegetab
into small slices and laying them in shallow