Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-24
GLoBELETs.
worlds production of gold il one.third


some SIS, 100000 year,
All the Barsanti clubs IN Italy, about thirty
IN Der, have been closed.
model Texan gave his son-in-law a we'd
ding present ef $4,000 head VT cattle.
a french railway contractor recommend.
qu1ck-ilme as o preservative for timber.
ihe lFees proposes to give a money prize
FOR the best bill IF fare for Christmas dinner
for eight persons.
The Baltimore Gazets says that Mr. Stephens
now weighs ninety-two pounds, Democratic
gain of two pounds.
New Britain, Conn, has reduced the aaiarie.
OF It's seieotrnen 20 per cent, and of its school
teachers IS per cent.
The emperor OF Japan took an extensive tour
last autumn through his dominions and re-
| turned to Ye6i.io last month.
On Dec. 8 the Pope received in private aud;-
ence the English eldest sou and daughter of
the church-their Graces of Norfolk.
Scotland. says the Edinburgh Daily Rsyis,e,
| Is goo, cG0000 poorer than it would have been
| estimated by an actuary few weeks age.
The foreign residents Of Hong Kong held
public meeting recently, to consider the iuse-
curl5y OF life and property in the colony.
The national subscription for the relief of
the shareholders of the City of Glasgow bank
has now reached the amount of 81, SAC, 500.
The number of families belonging TO the
Danish nobility amount to 1863 and out of this
number only twenty are of the pure old Danish
nobility.
Aibemarle and Nelson counties, Virgins, are
| shipping pippins and other apples to London.
where they command higher prices than in this
| country.
The friends of ex-senator Reuben E. Fenton
announce that he will urn from abroad next
june and make u determined push for the Re-
publican nomination for governor.
A cat at Morrisvil.e Mass, is endeavorine to
corner the mouse killing market and establish
monopoly BY stealing and taking home all the
traps she can tud. She already has five,
Official reports ISSUED recently by the Labor
ers Union state that the lockout of agricul-
tural iaoorers III Kent and Sussex is increasing,
Reariy 500 men being now on the union funds
special embassy from China is expected at
ST. Petersburg about the end of the present
month"; to negotiate with the Russian govern
ment respecting the Chinese claims to Kuldia.
Cipher dispatches figured in the case where
the DAG Decazes' election to the French assem-
bly, was invahdated, and the committee wanted
MN to give the key to those they could not
read.
The Ashland (Ky.) Rsyieap says neither one of
the two guards who took q lunatic from john
son county to the asylum could tell the name
of their postofficc, but the lunatic gave it
| promptly.
The London Truth say the Duke of Cor
naught will be appointed Lord-Lieutonant of
ireland as soon after his marriage as an oppor-
tunlty occurs to provide for the Duke of Mari
! borough.
| The Egyptian minister of public instruction
is an able Swiss known as Dor Bev bpt the
miserable sum of Sis, 500 is all that the cur
rent budget allows him to educate Young
Egypt on.
BY new law, ali children who finish their
education in any school in the Canton of Berne
undergo an examination. This year 1000 were
examined, and the result ia reported as ..ursat
isfactory.
Ex-Attorney-GeneralW Williams has sued VIM.
Mckee, editor Of the st. Louis G3obs-D einocrat.
for @56o, being for the uapaid residue. with
interest," of his bill for defending the editor
during the whisky ring prosecutions
Mary Weldon, q modest appearing Young
woman, has been arrested at Boston for shop
lifting, and about 81 400 worth OF goods. vary
ing from the cheapest wooden toy to costly
jewelFy, have been recovered in her room.
woman at Lawrence, Mass, has just given
pirth to her twenty-secoud child, while her two
married daughters have contributed baby
year to the population of the State du.ing the
seven and three years of their respective we'd
ded lives.
| The citizens relief committee OF Memphis
have wound up their affairs by distributing
tho cash On hand, S7253, among the poor white
orphan asylums, and setting aside sl,20s in
county warrants for the colored, asylum, IL it
shall be organized.
DR.. 2. d. Keyser, Of Wills hospital PhiIa
delphia, has undertaken the examination OF
the eyes of all the train-meu on the railroads
centering in that city. sirilaz examinations
IN Europe have shown that 2 per cent. of rail
road servants are color-blind.
Just before the emperor returned to Berlin
forty leading socialists received orders to quit
the city One was Mr. Fritzsche NJ. P. for
Berlin, who is accounted, says the Berlin cor
respondent of the Inaeps,sduaee Be1ge ono of
the most moderate of his party.
Red hair is q positive disadvantage to women
who work for living, at least in Boston. Jen-
ME Collins, who conducts Boifin's Bower-a
Boston institution for helping wonen who are
out Of wori-says that housekcepers almost
invariably decline red-headed women.
|
The Montreal papers came out in mourning
for the Princess Alice, wherein the Post the
| Irish paper, remarked that its contem noraries
came out in black in memory of the late Mr.
Costafroiaz" a murderer hanged tie day be-
fore. Subsequently the Post discharged the
offending editor.
There was great demand among the city
visitors to Pittsfeld, Mass. last summer, for
old brass candlesticks, and these articles, it is
expected, will be equally the rage next year. a
| pair of andirnos brought over in 1864 have
! been found at Lcnox and are TO be presented TO
General Dix.
An examination of the salaries of clergy
| men in Virginia. South Carolina, Georgia, Ken
lucky, and North Carolina, shows a lover
| average in North Carolina than in either of the
other States. Georgia supports her miniaters
best, Kentucky next, Virginia third and South
Carolina fourth.
a poor man of Chicopee, Mass, recently lost
| his pig, and his sympatlizing neisdbors
promptly raised go and presented it to him,
when in bounced his wife aud. wanting them
to understand that she was not going 10 be
| made an object Of charity, compelled him 10
return the money.
More than three-fourths Of the members Of
Congress are LAWYERS. perhans this ann1nn,s