Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-27
GLoBELETs.

In
some S45, 600 year.
The assessed valuation of the property of
Dakota Territory is 100000
After a chase of 100 miles Texan sheriff
captured nine year old murderer
On January 9Th, 1879, the week of PRAYER
Will begin throughout the United States.
ElPaso county, Colorado, is wintering about
io3,ooo sheep and about 33 GOO head of cattle.
Philadelphia people wear black ribbon in
the button-hole to show that they are in mourn
| ing.
| Inere Is cry for game protection in Michi-
gan, where deer are slaughtered by the whole
sale.
| Ihlrty-hve pupils from the Iowa blind asy-
| lum at Vinton giving concerts through the
| State.
| Omaha boasts of printer who has chewed
tobacco forty years and never purchased an
ounce.
The tide of immigration to Texas from Ger
| many is said to be heavier this year than ever
| before
1t is said that 100000 is spent yearly upon
teaching of music in the elementary schools
of England.
| Dakota criminals the past year have cost
$4,000 about Sl2, 600 of the amount being for
| transportation.
1t Is computed that the farmers of Hancock
county, ILL.,. have lost by the hog disease dur
ing the past year S33,17
thief at Alamosa, Nj. T.. has distinguished
himself by stealing saw mill and all the ap-
paratus connected Herewith
\ n
Springs than to board a man. In st. Paul
man can get bored for nothing.
The Duke of Norfolk has made reduction
of % per cent. on his half years rents in Sus-
sex, where his rental is $780,
1t is estimated that ZOO Americans visit
Europe annually and spend Sl,O00, 900, and
bring back only some very bad French.
Prussian offers to throw dam across Nj.
agara river, above the falls, for $4,000. Didn't
know that profanity could be materialized
The number of physicians in Prussia in 1873
was SOB; of surgeons, 149, and of dentists
251. The number of inhabitants was IS. 724-
4O4
| perfumery man puts on his labels the pic
ture of an innocent-looking Oxford theological
student, with the appropriate motto, ..Too
sweet for anything"
Herr August Wilhelmj gets kind friends to
write his autograph for him, as he receives
more applications for his signature than he
cal fill
The horse which Wilkes Booth rode from
Washington after his murder of President Lin
| coin is owned in Pomfret, Conn., and is
Is years old.
Nav Rrsfa h.e
of its selectmen 20 per cent, and of its school
teachers So per cent It's school teachers are
not select men.
tramp Hudson River train told the
conductor he wanted to go to hi. Give me
81 cents and get off at Poughkeepsie," was the
conductors advice.
Heavy shipments of cattle are being made
from Norfolk, Va, for Liverpool. They are
brought to the seaboard via the Atlantic, Mis-
sissppi & Ohio railroad.
Senior Borges, the Brazilian minister, has
rented in Washington the residence of HalIett
Kilbourne, of the largest and most ele-
gantly appointed in that CITY,
Dr. p. Dwight, who groomsman at the
marriage of President Hayes parents, is still
living IN Adams, Jefferson county, New York,
nearly nlnety-four years OF age.
As to a cabinet, Prince Bismarck deems it
most tiresome that have to discuss every
Fian with five or six persons who sometimes
know very little upon the subject
The residence of the Duke of Cumberland
In Copenhagen is said to be regarded by the
German government as incompatible with the
presence CT German legation there.
North has
asylums, for whose support the State paid in
ten months nearly $4,000 1t is inconvenient
to keep the members of tie legislature in
duress.
Hartford woman, who has fed from five to
dozen tramps weekly for months past recent
ly had a ton of coal dumped in her front ward,
and since that not single vagrant has appeared
for meal.
BY q new law, all children who finish their
education in any school of the Canton of
Berne, undergo examination. This wear
5000 were examined and the result is reported
as unsatisfactory"
Three tramps, the Oldest only 19 years of age
are in prison in Cheyenne under bonds of
ZOO each, for firing their pistols at passing
train. They are from New York, brothers,
and were working their way to the Pacific
coast.
The Galveston Ne,os says that lemons brought
to its office, grown by Mr. beats, of Dickinson
Bayou, lately. weighed III ounces. 1t has
lately been found that the tide water district
of Texas is unsurpassed for raising oranges
and lemons.
The Prussian minister of the interior has in
structed the police to seize indecent books pic-
lures, and other such objects offered for sale.
Vendors of these articles, as well as editors of
journals containing vendors advertisements,
are to be prosecuted.
| new line of eight iron steamers, to be
known as the Barring, and under the manage
| n1ent of the English house of Barring Brothers,
is soon to be established between Boston and
Liverpool. the first steamer leaving Boston on
| the 10th of next month.
There was a welding in Newton Conn. the
other day, after vigorous courtship of fifteen
years. So delighted was everybody that the
stars and stripes were hoisted on the hotel and
many private residences and salute of MANY
guns was fred at the hour Of the ceremony.
Cotton is worth from and half to
eight cents pound in the Covington, Ga,
market, and corn meal is worth eighty cents a
| bushel. is there any other argument needed,
says the Star, ito convince our farmers of the
necessity of raising more corn and less cotton"
On the 31st of December, at midnight. the
normal hour Is to be fixed throu e,hout Sweden.
All the government, railway and telegraph
CLOCKS are to be set simultaneously. In some
places, as for instance, in Stockholm, the clocks
| WI have tn ha nj,