Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-01-30
GLOBELETS.


1t was Massachusetts, man Blaine knelt TO
once on time.
The Naval Academy at Annapolis is provided
with dancing teacher.
Every city in the Russian empire has its
lyceum, and every town its grammar school.
The volcano of Ceborico, near Colima, Mexi-
co, Is at present in state of active eruption.
The third division of the Mexican army is
employed on works for draining the valley of
Mexico.
The Boston Herald remarks: The Bangor
Hh'g shows marked improvement this week.
lhe editor is away from home.''
A Virginia legislator encouraged by the sue
cess OF the tax on drinking, proposes State
tax of one cent on every cigar sold in the State.
The Massachusetts State constabulary, in the
eleven years since it was established, has cost
the State 81, 221, 43S. The State detective force
in three years has cost S110, 1903.
The horses and men belonging to No. =
| engine of New York city, well trained
that in six seconds from the sounding of the
fire alarm the engine is started for the street
The bankers of Atlanta, Ga. have put in
circulation there several thousand Mexican dol
AoAb, hulCu COet luclu aUOuG u tSutSs diu
which they issued to their customers at par.
The editor of Boonsboro, Iowa, paper, has
| been indicted for calling certain members of
dancing club ''eunichs.'' He meant to have
called them after their club name, ''Uniques.'
O'Donovan Rosa announces in the Irish
| World that the subscription fund for the liber-
| alton of Ireland now amounts to nearly 346, 900.
Hardly enough to fit up and take into action
one of his threatened torpedo boats.
| While John Green, newsboy the New
Haven railroad, was passing from to
another, in storm of last week near Woodlawn,
he was blown from the platform over fence
twenty feet from the track, but was not fatally
hurt
railway bridge the Hudson at Pough-
keepsie is being built, which is to consist of
five spans, each 521 feet long made entirely of
wrought iron on the rectangular truss plan.
| The longest truss bridge span heretofore built
| is SIS feet.
1t is estimated that $780, 900 buffalos will be
killed this the Southern buffalo
ranges. The slaughterers kill them for the
hides, worth on the plains less than dollar
each, and the carcasses are left to the wolves.
birds, flies andworms.
The United States navy is exceedingly top
heavy. The required to pay the officers
and enlisted men for the present fiscal year is
81, COG, 900. CT this $500 900 are paid to the
enlisted men, Common saiolrs, and 81 600
to the officers.
1t is feared that another disaster will occur
in the New York post office building on account
of the partition walls not being sufficiently sup
| %aI ,&aIl
account of the danger. The building is one of
J Mullett's jobs
The practical abolition of the sale of liquor
in Cameron parish, Louisiana, by levying
parish license of $500, has worked to such gen
eral satisfaction for three years. that the newly
, chosen police jury of the parish has again fixed
the license at that sum.
! In ST. Landry parish, La. out of fifty crimi-
nal cases tried at the last term Of the district
court only two verdicts of not guilty were
dered, and the accused in one of these instances
was convicted another Indictment, leaving
but one person acquitted
Down in Kentucky blue ribbons are OCCASION
: ally worn to deceive those who ask one to
K drink expecting they will refuse. The kentucky
a blue ribbon answers promptly: Certainly
/ ure of the man who thought he wouldn't.
r Thurlow Weed is quoted as saying that Mr..
l. Hayes shou Id have been elected to the superin-
It tendency of Sunday School instead of to the
,. Presidency of great Republic But Mr..
/ Hayes was not elected to the Presidency and
no Sunday School would submit to a counted
:. in superintendent
Senator Edwards thinks Carpenters picture
of Lincoln and his cabinet is not work of
~ art, worthy of place in the capitol. Then
having the painter instead of the picture, for a
le man who will execute work of art unworthy
0r of association with such works some that are
or already admitted to the capitol, deserves nc
le mercy.
Of One day the late Indian Commissioner Smith
was visited on special business. In response t.
70 a request for certain information he threw
u himself back in his chair and said: Really
you'll have to ask Mr.. Galpin. He runs th,
= Office. I'm statesman He said it with a,
10 utter unconsciousness of the accuracy of the
70 sarcasm.
Collector Slade. of Ell Paso, Texas, on the 24ti
ss inst. reported: up to the present writing the
IN rangers, headed by the sheriff have killed foul
to Mexicans and wounded one woman. They tool
of no prisoners" The rangers sheriff's posse
I'd called out by proclamation of the Governo
of Texas. The ''Mexicans they killed are cit
liens of Texas and of the United States.
r John Hussy, 'longshoreman of New York
al who has in his time saved nineteen. human
IN beings and seven horses from death by drown
ing, is to receive medal of the first-cIass from
the Secretary of the Treasury. He alread
wears two medals, and has received compli
'st mentary letter enclosing 800 from the Iif
p Saving Benevolent Association
= The recent railway accident at Tarifville
- Conn.,, on the Hartford & Providence rail
III road, by which fourteen persons were kille
u and number of others wounded, is believed t
have been caused by p rail being displaced
or The author of several anonymous threatenin
a. letters which have been received by the pres
= dent of the railroad company is being sough
- for.
-, terrible death was that which recently cam
upon Mr.. Jossup, who owned and operated
~ saw mill near South Hannibal, Oswego count,
es N. Y. He was caught in the chain by whic
the logs were drawn into the mill and was cal
ut, ried to the bull wheel, where the chain woun
g repeatedly around his body, slowly crushin
en- him to death. AS he was at work alone at tn
a time, it some hours before his lacerate
"a and mutilated body was discovered
lie Oliver P. Dunn, of New Brunswick, N. J
nut aged "a, desiring to marry Mrs. Way, aged 7.
at wished to have the marriage performed by
Baptist pastor, and all the Baptist pastor