Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-12
GLOBELETS.


An eighty-seven-pound sturgeon was caught
IN the Wisconsin river, at Sank City, last
week.
Sixteen thousand head Of cattle, from Medina
and Frio counties, Taxes, are on route for
Kansas.
The artificial Ice sold in the South is deliver.
ed in beautiful cubes of exactly one hundred
pounds each.
Nearly all the wheat is sown in Wisconsin,
and the farmers say they never got it in in
better shape.
There were only four ''Uncle Tom COM
panles In New York last week. The other
thirty-one got away.
The Calumet and Hecla mine in Michigan
produced thirteen hundred and ninety-one tons
of copper in March.
The Archduke Francis Charles of Austria left
a fortune of sl2, 100000, one-third of which is
to be applied to relieving the poor.
Rev. ]. W. Lane, of Plover, Portage county,
Wis.,, says that, according to his theory of in.
depreciation, the year 1885 will usher in the
millennium.
The people of Rochester, N. Y, don't like 1t
because Hemlock lake, whence they get their
water supply, is used as a public baptismal
fount They don't like to have their uatsr
impregnated with the cast-off sins of Living
ston county.
1t seems to be denied in Washington, and
more especially in New York, that the Congress
which has power to contract the currency to
any extent has any power to expand it. Will
some of the philosophers and statesmen make
this little clearer?
An aged New York millionaire Mr.. John P.
Moore, recently had a SS5, 900 package of bord.
snatched from him by thief. whom two off,
| GERS pursued and captured. The grateful mil
lionaire has asked permission Of the authorities
| to present the officers with $40.
Los Angeles paper states that the genuine
Smyrna fig commerce has been introduced at
| Pasadena, California, where it is almost per.
| petually in fruit. Last year it fruited from
June to January, and this year has already
| started fruiting, and will probably ripen from
| May-day to Christmas.
A fisherman caught sturgeon in the Colum-
bia river, near Columbia city, Oregon, which
! measured nearly fourteen feet from nose" to
tip of tail fin, and was little less than Eve
feet in circumference. Owing to the lack of
means, the fish was not weighed. This ia the
largest fish Of the kind ever taken in the Col.
| umbia.
In the new Michigan State capitol there are
ZIG rooms exclusive of corridors, stairways,
alcoves, and dome, distributed an follows:
Basement, SO; main floor, So; second floor, a.;
third floor, SO; fourth floor. Z. There are "a
corridors, stairways and alcoves, and two boiler.
rooms, each 40x70 feet, making the total num-
Der Of rooms in the building 26s, exclusive of
the four stairways and dome.
Gov. Joe Brown, of Georgia, has made
contract with that State by which he has hired
the penitentiary convicts for twenty years at
$25, 900 per annum. The Nashville american
claims that Tennessee does much better. She
receives for her penitentiary lease over SS2. 600
per year-S7O.0U for rental and about SIS, 900
for expenses of transportation of convicts from
place of conviction to the prison.
Prof. Fawcett is fierce radical in politics,
but nevertheless loyal subject of Queen Vic
torla. The Professor once went on shooting
excursion with his father. whose gun, filled
with small shot, accidentally went off, and the
discharge lodged in the eyes of his son, who il
consequently blind. He is member of Par
lament for the fashionable watering place,
Brighton. His wife transacts his correspond
ence.
The following story in the Nineteenth Cen.
tu1y will send shudder through temperance
folks: A lady in the south of England had q
! raw and freespoken waiteress who, after being
In the house fortnight, omitted to put any
water bottles on the table. When reminded of
the omission, she replied, For fourteen days
I've put EN- on the table and none of you's
drunk any. don't mean to put 'em on any
more"
farmer in Northern Iowa owned what he
regarded as fine place for summer resort
There was rugged mountain. green valley, q
> placid lake, and only q mineral spring wa,
lacking. He endeavored to supply the wan,
by introducing various ingredients, through @
hidden pipe, into a clear spring. Then b,
> built hotel, and advertised. The first boarde,
was Plying fellow. who straightway discov
cred the fraud and broke up tho enterprise.
young woman. with pretty face and
modest ways, took a room in Springfield
hotel The other guests pitied her beoaus,
she seemed timid and unprotected. Before tn
week was out three mon had called to see her
y One was the husband from whom she hal
eloped. A second was the man with whom sh
had eloped. third was man with whom
L she had promised to elope, but had Tilted. tn
simultaneous meeting of these four person
was 30 inharmonious that all were turned on
= of the house.
8 Mr.. Dicks is one of the admired yourg gal
II lants of Wooster, Iowa. Two girls claimed hi
Q escort from social gathering. He politel
II offered an arm to each, but that arrangement
u did not please the rivals, who quarrelled i
/ the street. Mr.. Dicks declined to interfere i
the controversy. He stood aside, and toll
them to settle the question between them
selves. They did so by long and severe fight
in which hair and clothes were torn, face
scratched, and fingers bitten. At length on
was vanquishcd, and Mr.. Dicks gave his arm I
the victor.
a 1t is likely that the old style Of placer mir
, ing will be extensively revived in Californi
this season. There are 10000 idle men /
3 San Francisco without prospect of soon ge
i ting employment at living wages. An immena
8 fall of rain in the mountains has made it pc.
: sible to work many gulches not usually availa
BILE. The unemployed men are going to thos
places in large numbers, and by summer th
y entire 10000 will be scattered in abandone
a and new diggings. They can make by han
ia from 90 to $5 day-a remuneration that the
/. scorned in flush times, but noNregard as yer
acceptable.
Sorrow in Baltimore. dark shadow ha
fallen on colored ecclesiastical circles in tba
: city, for the cruel mayor has forbidden th
C holding OF cake walks. Some of the brethre