Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-31
GLoBELETS.

umbrella.
The potato blight has appeared in many part.
of Nova Scotia.
Cyprus, which should be called Beaconsfela
is the home of the caulifower.
One can live on 90 IL month cb;r. W.
would prefer to live on a farm
The Keokuk Constitution thinks +ho-o :.
corn doctor of divinity that shapes onr e,d.
Bogardus when not giass-baH SHOOTING. can
make way with forty-nine fish balls ont of
possible fifty.
franco-Jewish company has obtained
monopoly for the extraction of bitumen from
the Dead Sea.
Boston Post: Di Murska is fond of pies, She
always takes couple of magpies with her
when travelling.
Every day since her birth each of the parenf,
of Flemingsburg, KY, girl have deposited 10
| cents for her benefit She is now 90
Miss Ransom is at work on a portrait oe
Mrs. Senator Dorsey who is said to be the most
beautiful lady in Washington society.
| decree has been issued by the car ORDERING
that the recently purchased cruisers shall not
be included in the list of the Russian navy.
! The federal government has sixtv million
acres OF land open to presumption in Califor-
ma, including twenty million acres of tilIable
| soil.
German and Austrian law forbids The sale nj
dead fish. The fish are brought from the saa
and rivers in tanks, and are killed after beins
sold.
| More suicides are committed in proportion
| to the population, in San Francisco, than in
any other civilized city. We hope Kearuey
will hurry home.
we have seen n pack of cards that have
| been cut several hundred times and vet they
are whole now.-Boston Post. That Joke will
pass, though it's deuced low.
| company has been formed in Algeria for
the introduction of Chinese laborers on ac-
count of the scarcity of hands for timber
cutting and mining operations
AT Boorgade near Milan dog was found
gna"ing bone which proved to be woman's
arm Other fragments of the body were found
and horrible murder is suspected
lady IN the northern part of Herkimer
county Ohio, was so frightened at the appear
ance OF snake IN her path that her hair, pre-
Viously glossy black, turned white
graduate OF one of our leading American
colleges is acting cook at one of the summer
resort hotels, and the hash is served up in
seven ianguages-just six more than the average
guest can wres tie with
A New York dressmaker employs three men
cutters, goes to Paris for STYLES every seaso,
owns house for which she paid ;s35, 900, and
keeps her carriage and horses She has made
her way entirely herself
sensation has been caused at East Boston
by the elopement OF a beautiful and wealthy
young widow with penniless but dashiup and
handsome milkman, the woman leaving her l6-
months-old baby to take care of itself.
Mrs. Mackay, wife of the bonanza king, ba,
sapphire which was once the property of n
Russian prince, and it cost her $3.50, 00O 1t Ia
an inch IN diameter Her pearl necklace cost
500, 600, and her coral set cost $4,000
The Nation thinks that part of the drill of
every girls school ought to be the reception bv
wife in an old gown, to dinner of corned
beef and cabbage, of an unlooked-for guest.
thoughtlessly brought home by a reckless hug
band
While grnbbing up a stump, Il Hunt Co. TEX
farmer struck an old iron pot, holding 1926 in
silver and fifteen $40 gold pieces On top of
the money was silver goblet marked ALylack.
the name Of family which disappeared during
the war.
1t is reported that the New York Times is
about to Introduce the electric light in its com
posing room. The cost of gas used there is
about $500 a month at present The cost of
the electric light, it is understood will be only
$100a month
Nothing thrills the female clerk in a country
postohce with greater satisfaction than to get
hold OF postal card containing 900 words
That is. IT they are written in legble hand
and the person to whom the card is addressed is
not waiting for it,
DR.. j. S. Myer of Virginia CITY, New. has
rediscovered a lost Egyptian art. He tempers
copper tools to lasting cutting edge than
steel tools will hold, similar to that of the
copper implements with which the stone for
the Pyramids was cut.
rive Italian ragplckers had a narrow escape
from death at Bridgeport. They went to sleep
on a track III the railroad yard and would have
been crushed by n switch engine as it came
dashlng along had it not jumped the rails lust
before 1t reached them.
According to the Swedish papers Prince L.oui.
Napoleon had a very narrow escape with his life
during his visit to Sweden. Examining at an
agricultural exhibition, he approached close to
an engine, which, unexpectedly, was set in mo-
ton and caught his clothes
man at one of the watering places commit
ted suicide by cutting his throat in a bath
house. 1t is thought he mprudently looked
into mirror after DOMINIC one of those awful
bathing suits, and the sight of the horrible OBJ
ject reflected therein turned his head
large district of Siberia il being rayaced
by hordes of bandits. They consist of escaped
conVlcts-men who have been sentenced to til g
mines of Siberia, ut have escaped. These
have banded together in companies, and are
now the terror of the district they infegt
In Florence, ala, woman gave herself up
to the authorities, accusing herself of killing
man. The Florence Gazette remarks: eve are
Informed that the killing was the result of
jealousy. Her fellow was sitting in another
girls lap, and she shot the stuffnp ont of
him.
The effort to raise bananas in San Diego
county Is proving to be SUCCESS 1t is be-
Heyed that within the next five years the homo
market Will De supplied almost entirely with
bananas grown in California. If We are bound
to slip mp on banana skins, let's ENCOURAGE
domestic industry.
new cannon has been made at the Krupn
works IN Germany of enormous dimensions
bau OF this cannon pierces the thickest
arinor plates of vessels at a distance of eight
miles. Two shots, at range of six thousend