Daily globe., 1878-07-21
Items of Interest.
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Sharp misunderstanding subject.
Fish expressed If not implied G. O.
D.
What beats good wife? A bad hus-
band.
How t. get a long weA--Have it dug
deep.
Hairy somethings-Tresses and mat
tresses.
Molasses candy would taste just as
sweet by any other name.
There are over 1850 convicts in the
Sing Sing IN. ~ prison.
A female gate-keeper has been remov-
ed for deadheading her sweetheart. She
never tolled her love.
The man who invented the first moni-
tor has now invented torpedo to blow
her up. Few men are SO consistent.
The arrival of hand organ man is the
last pleasing sensation in the Black
Hills. He reminds the boys of home
and old times.
It seems hard, says the Cincinnati
Breakfast I'a61e, to discover a great man
who has not at some time worked in a
printing office.
Now digs the boy the garden plot
With energy intense,
Until he bags tribe of worms,
And then he skips the fence.
A man who is uncertain about using
the term bicycle speaks of them as
':those things, you know, that they ride
and look into second-story windows
with"
The German emperor keeps diary of
everything he shoots. In 1919 his gun
was discharged by accident, and ne had
to enter up, "Forefinger right hand"
"Slowtown!" shouted the brakeman,
as the train slowed up to the station.
olive years for refreshments" yelled
a passenger who said his son had grown
up since the train started.
sWhat did the prisoner first strike you
for?" casually asked the judge OF the
complainant with bandage over his
eve. "He first struck me for five dol
lar bill, YOUR HONOR" was the feeling re-
ply.
ssSales by candle" was the method of
sale during the seventeenth century. A
wax candle, about an inch in length, was
set on the edge of knife, and he that
bid most before the candle was out, was
the buyer,
When you put your pen-holder behind
your ear be sure that you have the pen
to the front. Ideas OF great profundity
are sometimes banished hopelessly from
the mind by failing to observe this rule.
Robinson's show elephant got SO riled
at having to cross North Carolina river
in ferry boat lately that he picked up
a colored boy, who aided to drive him on
the boat, and squeezed him to death with
his trunk.
There are in this country about 700
carpet-maxing establishments, and they
represent a permanent investment of
s13,ooo,ooo. The annual production of
carpets, with a good market, is in the
vicinity of $24,O0o,O00.
In 1877 there we're 2,999,677 electors
in Great Britain and Ireland, or more
than one in twelve of the population.
There are about nine million qualified
voters in the United States, or one in
every five of the population.
It is estimated that the use of the
Moffet bell-punch in New York City, by
a simple tax of two and one-half cents on
alcoholic drinks, and one-half cent on
cider, ale and beer, would yield the treas
$12,000,000 per annum.
It's all very we'll to talk about economy,
but the difficulty is to get anything to
economize. The little baby who puts
his toes in his mouth is almost the only
person who in these hard times manages
to make both ends meet.
According to the statistics of Secretary
Porter, of the International Sunday school
convention. there are 6,504,05 scholars
in the Sunday schools of the United
States and 339,943 in those of Canada
The whole number Of schools is S3,441,
and of teachers and officers, 894,793.
The Samoan Islands are the great CO.
coanut-producing islands of the globe
The inhabited ones are nine in number
and have population of $4,000. One
German firm, dealing in the staples o1
those islands, does business of $4,000,
600 year. Payo-Pago is the harbol
which the United States have lately
bought.
A poor woman in Denmark, the wife
of laborer, past fifty, observing few
month ago three children who had fallen
through the ice on a lake, rushed into the
water, and at the imminent peril OF hel
own life rescued the children. Tht
King decided that this act of Drawer.
should not pass unrewarded. The woman
was sent up to town from the country; {
room was prepared for her in the roya
palace, where she stayed a couple o
days to see the sights Of Copenhagen
and she received from the hands of tn
King, in the presence of the royal fam
ily, the medal and ribbon for civil act
of bravery, being the first woman il
Denmark who has received this honor
The King secured place for her AM
her family in the Royal Theater, wher
she was the observed of all observers
OF any more substantial compensation
for her act of bravery there is no record
A short time after the ship lilo qulttet
Callao, Peru, the captain discovered tw
stowaways on board and put them il
irons. During the following night
Chilian, who had hung his hammock il