Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-14
GLOBELETs.

Maids 2:14
When tramp arrives at Dallas Texas, he is
put to work on farm which the city has
bought for the purpose.
A cousin of R. E. Lee, lives in the town of
Green Valley, Wis, Shawano county. His
| name is EImore E. Lee.
At the Paris dog show in June the dogn
| which accompany blind mendicants will havea
place assigned to them.
Woman suffrage has just had its annual de-
feat in the Massachusetts, Legislature The vote
| was about evenly divided.
Over 250,000 American stoves are now dis
tr1buted over Great Britain and Ireland. They
are considered excellent in every respect.
| Hundreds of pigeon-shooters are moving
northward to dispute with the pigeons the
| possession of the woods of Emmett and Antrim
counties, Michigan.
The American Board of Foreign Missions is
discussing the question of going into the Cen
trail African field. About S25, 900 would be re-
quired for respectable start
There in Chicago lightweight lumber
yards, with total stock on hand amounting
to 1921, 1863, 739 feet of lum Der, 4O552, 500 of
1aLn, ana lZO, 1851 ,4OU shingles.
The thirsty but impecunlous hummer newest
trick is to stand close to the whisky barrel in
liquor store, slyly turn the faucet into the top
of one of his boots, and thus walk out with
several quarts of the liquid.
Under the name of the kyrle Society an as
soc1atlon of ladies and gentlemen has lately
been formed in England for the purpose of
bringing the refining and cheering influences
of natural beauty into the homes and neigh
| borhood of the poor
Abiding to the death of Mrs. Crawshay in
the hunting field, the Pal Nal Gazette gives
| list of hunting casualties in the county where
she died, which conspicuously points to the
perils of the sport, but its devotees will not
regard the danger any the more.
| At Emporia Kan, last Tuesday one of the
| mllitlamen called out to overawe the railroad
| strikers, named Patrick O'Neal took aim at
Rev. o. j. Shannon, q Congregational minister
| pulled the trigger and instantly killed him.
| O'Neal did not know his gun was loaded
| A curious candle used in Alaska is a fish
| eighteen inches long, almost transparent, and
| very fat, the fat being pure white and very
sweet. The Indians dry this fish, then light it
| at the tall and it burns with clear, sparkling
fame, which the wind will not extingush
! The employment of women in the telegraph
department has been complete success in
England. Over l, 100 are employed in London,
and there has been but one dismissed in four
years. Their hours of work are from s o clock
| in the morning to o'clock in the evening
each being on duty eight consecutive hours out
| of the twelve
Since 1870 Russia has borrowed e70 600. GOO
for the construction of railways, and the money
cost to her of the war with Turkey is about
200 1000, 600, or $780, ,0OO-gold valuation
It is probable that Russia would have been
much stronger if she had spent this money on
her railroads.
1t is estimated that the railways of the
| United States consume annually about 100, 600
acres Of timber for ties, 100000 for the manu-
| facture of rolling stock, and near SOC, 900 for
fuel, making an aggregate of 1900 square
miles of land stripped for the benefit of rail-
ways.
The .Hanutactu1cy md Builder makes a mi
mute calculation of the expense and advantages
of the electric light, compared with other
methods of Illumination, and concludes that
it is seven times cheaper than gas, motive
power not included; and four times cheaper,
taking into account the cost of driving.
"a Cincinnati Heiress to an Estate Worth
$S5, 900, 600 Living in Com arative Poverty is
a startling head to an article in the Cincinnati
Enquirer. Further down it appears thai the
estate is that of Anneke JAMS. Quite a number
| of other heirs to the so-called Anneke JAMS
estate are living in comparative poverty, and
likely to remain in it.
The New York Tribune of Saturday, an
nounces "a remarkable and revolutionary
change" which has lately been effected in the
process Of printing. 1t promises to describe
this, and also to give full account of ma
chine of entirely new kind, just constructed
for its own use, (which far surpasses all pre-
vious achievements in fast printing, even by
the foremost of American inventors.
Booth playing at the Pillsbury Opera
House, large audience collected, Wednes-
day night and the play about to begin
when, without warning, the gas turned off,
leaving the house in total darkness. The gas
company was the author of the trick the man
ager being largely indebted to it. Fortunately
no accident occurred in the scramble through
t'eoSe'GS
reached the street.
Wade Hampton wrestled nightly with his
inaugural, and his friends and family could
not but perceive and sympathze with his pain
When the family came home one Sunday morn
ing, it was received by the Governor with a
countenance beaming with satisfaction akin
to happiness. what is the matter?'' asked
one 'sHave you completed your message?''
''Nor' was the Governors joyful reply; "but
have found the old turkey-hen's nest over yon.
der in the woodsr'
) Saxony is now nearly densely peopled as
Belgium. In 1884 the population was 1885,,
66S; in 1861, 1925, 240; in 1864, 1887, 1872 il
1867, 2,423, 5S8; in 1875, 2,760, $50. Part OF
this is due to the immigration thither of factory
hands from other parts of Germany. The
population of the cities has been especially
rapid. In 1884, Dresden had 10000; in 1861
100000; in 1875, 10000. Leipzig has grown
from As, 0G0 in 1884, to 127, 900 in 1875. Chem
nitz, from q 900 in 1884, to 7S,0 900 in 1875. 1
the suburbs of these cities be included, thei
, population was, respectively, in 1885. pa, 600
; 213 900. and ia ,00O
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