Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-11-18
GLOBELETS.

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having their sons educated to succeed them in
the case.
According to the last census there are in
Austria 1873 men and 226 women of 100 years
old and over.
The sum contributed to Princeton college
under the presidency of DR.. McCosh has
reached 81, 900, 900.
Scarcely tramp is now to be found in New
Hampshire, thanks to a rigid tramp act thor
| oughly administered.
Less than 40 per cent. of the land in Penn
sylvania is improved. Less than 40 per cent.
of it is worth improving.
The latest invention reported in Europe is a
| phosphorescent paper, writing or print on
| which can be read in the dark.
The English bishops have resolved not to is
sue licenses for there marriage according to the
church rites of divorced persons.
A massive gold chain was found in collec-
| ton at st. Andrews church, Liverpool, for the
benefit of the Seamens orphanage
The Glasgow policeman who arrested Mr..
Lewis Potter, of the City of Glasgow bank
directors, had once been his footman
man has discovered on his farm in Water
AoAu, u, Solu ore WHICH assays SgUU ton.
When he put it there it assayed S2O1 ton.
| The expectation of butter from France has
increased from 100000 cwt. in 1872 to SOC, 900
| cwt. In 1876. Some of it was goat butter
Wllkle Collins has completed Dickens unfiu-
| lshed novel, The Mystery of Edwin Brood"
Why the dickens didn't he finish it long ago2
The latest girl victim to Mormonism is tall
heaNtlfnl and fair
choice that she takes fraction of a husband.
Twenty new ice houses have been built on
the Hudson, and the ice business will be yerv
active this year-an ice business, SO to speak
George Washington Childs, A. NJ. took Dean
Stanley to negro church in Philadelphia, and
the dean seemed greatly interested in the excr
| cises.
Starvation vel low fever and smallpox are
sweeping off the population of northern Brazil.
There has been no rain in that region for two
years.
Topsy was scientifically right, Mr. Huxley
| says, when she 'spected she growed, for it is a
misuse of language to say that people are
made.
Nine. Timers and her sister, who are on visit
to England, CHANGED strangely enough to travel
to London in the train with the ex-empress and
her son.
! W. B. Astor has a country seat of 500 acres
on the Hudson, on which 40 men and ITO horses
are employed. It's a star farm-a sort of
| Astor risk.
One of the articles shipped from India to
China is sailed rats, which are, as ia we'll
kaown, highly appreciated in China as an ar
ticle of food.
AT single meal three or four Afghans find
no difficulty in eating the tail of duamba
sheep, mass of pure fat, weighing from six
to eighteen pounds.
The lord high chancellors of England have
suffered another reduction in pay. Now they
only get $50,00O-hardly enough to keep EN-
in chewing tobacco.
A resident of Ellinwood, Kan. recently
killed forty-two ducks He cannot tell lie:
he did it with his little double-barreled shot
| gun at one discharge.
There has been great falling off in the yield
of amber in the Baltic. Reaches of coast
rented for $500 have yielded amber to the
amount of only 800.
The Penobscot Indians have elected Stephen
Stanislaus their governor. Saul Neptune to be
| lientenant-governor, and Sabattls Dana as del
cgate to the legislature
The autobiography of John b. Cough, ex
tended to the present time, will be published
in England within few months. 1t is expect
ed to Cough like hot cakes.
Three Hindoos, who recently killed n young
man at Mainpurias sacrifice to the goddess
Kali, have been arrested, and stand very
good chance of being hanged.
The Russo-Turkish war has added $40 600, 900
roubles-the rouble is nearly IS cents-to the
annual interest on the Russian debt, and in
fiated the currency by 500000,0 900 roubles
Weese and Singleton went into Virginia
City street to shoot at each other, and fired al
together seven times; but neither was hit, while
an Indian woman and boy received bullet
apiece.
Within the past twenty years there has been
great extension in England of the culture of
figs under glass, and many landed proprietors
now pluck fresh figs for dessert in their own
greenhouses.
The Der lin police have lately found that at
least one-tenth of the population of that city
live in cellars. TIE mortality among them is
great. Half of the houses of the city are e1-
cessively crowded.
Forty-nine clerks in the post Office depart
ment at Washington have entered upon the
study of law. general acquaintance with
letters in of course, a very desirable qualifca-
ton for successful lawyer.
schoolmistress at Newburgh N. Y, was ar
rested for whipping boy. She proved the
boy bad, and instead of having to pay So, 600,
she secured verdict of S25 against the boys
parents for the annoyance of arrest.
A mob in Wilmington, Ohio, could not get at
the murderers whom it wanted to hang, and 80
vented its fury the house in which the MUIR
der had been committed, tearing it to pieces.
As the substance was gone they took the
shadow.
Dallas, Texas. is puzzled by the disappear
auce in one night of large pond that has for
many years existed in the limits of that town.
The mystery is partially explained by the fact
that a barrel of whisky was emptied into it
the day before.
German papers say that socialistic editors
and politicians, sentenced to imprisonment,
have been seen, during their conveyance to
their places of confinement, chained and hand
cuffed to thieves and other criminals of the
most abandoned type.
Brussels has of late been prey to some afro
cious ruffans who have been levying large sums
from strangers by blackmail. One old man
paid $4,000, another 1920 in one evening.
Americans familiar with the Galerie st. Hubert
know the sort Of people.
The grass is now growing in some of the fash
ionable streets of Edinburgh, which, for activ-