Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-20
GLOBELETS.

Pekin. Ill, scamp fred hen coop aud
thirty chickens were roasted.
A number of deaths from estipg mushrooms
nave occurred lately in France.
young Japanese attends the door at the
pain residence of Gen. Grant in Galens.
Dumas Is at work upon a, new comedy which
Is 70 deal with nineteenth century Tartuife.
Ont OF thlrty-nine drinking places in two
wards OF Camden, N. j., only six are licensed.
a Vermonter at a 'eapcc kicked spirit On
the nose and the medium could not 90 on. for
a week. ----.--.
On capital of $500, 600 the cotton mills Of
Augusta Ga, pay dividend Of twenty-eirbt
por cent.
The earnings of the Pullman Palace Oar COM
pany this year are said to exceed those of tbs
last five years.
Nc" jersey contains ever 1000. 600 popula-
ZION, nifty incorporated towns contributing
500, 600 of the number
A series of lawsuits about an iron bolt VAL
ued at ten cents, has already cost the !itigants
5000, at Plain City. Ohio.
Mrs. Flora E. Price, lately captive of the
Ute Indians with the Meeker ladies, was mar
rled when twelve years old.
France had 81 1922 vessels. with q TONNAGE oe
i6a' ooo tons, and manned by 81, 4S1 sailors, en-
gagged in the fisheries last year.
The crops have been so bad in North Itai7
this season that emigration to South Americ.
has received new and powerful impulse.
The Prince Of Wales visits the continent at
| least ten times year, and he is almost as welt
known in Paris as in London and Copenhagen.
At the burial of Gen. Joe Hooker the old
| white horse, ridden by the old soldier in so
many battles, followed the hearse to the grave
Statistics in the United States estimate
that, with increased immigration, the popuIa-
ton will DE found in June, 1880, to be 40
| 400, 900. #
| The sultan has issued decree that the "a.
| tons for horses, which have from time imme-
| mortal been served out to naval officers, shall
! be discontinued.
| The president of women's temperance 40
clety. at Nob!esyille, Ind, publicly horse
whipped man for tempting the husband of
member to drink.
An attempt will soon be made in the West
ern States to propagate German oarp, which
have been known to grow in two years TO
weight Of ten pounds.
There is great complaint now in England Of
the number of foreign workmen residing ther.,
who come for the wages which tho British
workmen quarrel with.
Mrs. Ruth Richmore of Bloomington, ver-
mont, "a years old, has given up her pipe, after
smoking constantly for thirty years, and tins
far has experienced no i'll effects.
Denver paper says that Hiss Josephine
Meeker, daughter Of the late Indian agent,
will probably accept from Secretary Schurz a.,
offer OF clerkship in the interior department.
The Austrian emperor has forwarded as 6
present to the new Roman Catholic church of
Boston an album worth $1,000. 1t is to be
sold ut auction for the benefit of the building.
The Duke of Wellington laid that man
OF refined Christian sensibilities is totally uu-
tit for the profession of soldier which prch-
ably accounts for Gen. Oh, Oh, Towards mill
tary failures.
Over 200 statues and pieces Of sculpture, be-
longing to the best period OF Greek art. have
been recovered by q German engineer on the
site Of the ancient Pergamos, NOW Bergama,
Asiatic Turkey.
An international exhibition is to be held 1T
Madrid in HAY. 1881. II. Colbert, a French
architect, has been requested by the Spanish
government to furnish design for the build
ing to be erected. 4
! The Italian press is clamoring FOR a new law
which will render Divorce easier than it is now
in the kingdom, where husbands and wives 81
daggers points are forced to live together both
! by law and religion.
San Francisco and Portland. Oregon, are
complaining Of the great scarcity OF ships aud
sailors, which occasions delay in the shipment
of the vast quantities of wheat end other
freight at those ports.
bitches are dug alongside the Iron Mountain
d Southern railroad, three feet wide snd two
deep, by means Of an enormous pillow, which ia
drawn by locomotive. The machine does The
work of a thousand men.
! The residing room of the British museum
contains three miles of bookcases eight feet
high The dome whence the electric light IRA
dates the vast room is next to that of the
Pantheon at Rome, The largest extant.
Mr. Hemmorder, of Galveston, in Texas, .
barkeeper, on the evening of his wedding LETT
| LIS uAluo, WILL UAo pdIsoh anu nef iIleQ0s
waiting for him in parlor and stepping out
to stable took dose of poison and died.
! very affectionate intercourse subsists bs-
tween the prince and princess of Wales and the
czarevitch and his wife. After very pleasant
sejour in Denmark, the four went off for a four
days frolic in Paris before finally separating.
At the recent meeting of the Social Science
association, at Manchester, there were only
two present when Mr.. Carmichael read his re-
port on International Copyright. the reader
and tho chairman. 1t VISA unanimously adopt
ed.
Tue annual report Of the superintendent Of
foreign mails shows that payments for the sea
| transportation of mails during the last fiscal
year amounted to sl98, 908; being an increase
of 81, 632 over the cost Of the same service for
| 1875. @ -@.z5 3 e. ...
The official statistics of the production Of
| salt in Germany show that the number OF
salt mines or salt works in the several states is
| sixty-one. They give employment to $3.50
workmen, and the annual production of salt il
Isl, 100000 pounds.
Satin is said to owe its origin to Octave h1ai,
| Who having listlessly chewed scraps Of silk.
was struck with their glistenins appearance
when he elected them from his mouth. By az
plying heat and certain mucilaginous matte- to
the silk he arrived at satin.
Several varieties of the olive have been found
to grow readily in different soils in all the
Australian colonies, and the cultivation Of tho
tree; which has been carried on with copsidera-
bic success in Queensland and south Australia.
is now being largely taken up in Victoria ard